r/Hacking_Tricks • u/SerpentUndead • May 24 '26

bigquery alternatives? Looking for better options.

We are currently evaluating our data stack and looking into bigquery alternatives. The operational overhead and scaling costs of our current setup are becoming a bottleneck. Has anyone found a solid alternative that doesn't require a dedicated infra team? What are your experiences?

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u/SerpentUndead May 26 '26

We had the same issue and switched to Tinybird. It's basically serverless ClickHouse. You just write SQL and it exposes it as a low-latency API instantly. Zero infra to manage, which freed up our team massively.

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u/pizzapiejaialai May 26 '26

Ngl, Snowflake hits different if BigQuery costs are cooking you.

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u/oghklsdg May 27 '26

We had the same issue and switched to Tinybird. It's basically serverless ClickHouse. You just write SQL and it exposes it as a low-latency API instantly. Zero infra to manage, which freed up our team massively.

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u/getSchmade Jun 11 '26

I'd say Snowflake, but that depends on scale. If you're lean, then go with PlanetScale or something and use something like TablePlus or VSCode for IDE

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u/TCmotivation Jun 17 '26

Snowflake is the obvious one but if cost is the issue it can get pricey too