| Dimension | Snowflake | Databricks |
| Origin | Purpose-built cloud data warehouse | Managed platform for Apache Spark, evolved into a lakehouse |
| Core abstraction | Virtual warehouses over managed storage | Clusters and serverless compute over Delta Lake / Iceberg tables |
| Primary users | Analysts, BI teams, SQL-first practitioners | Data engineers, data scientists, ML and AI teams |
| Data format | Proprietary micro-partitioned format (Iceberg support growing) | Open formats: Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg |
| Operating model | Fully managed, minimal tuning | Flexible, more configurable, more tuning surface |
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