This blog series contrasts Snowflake and ClickHouse for the real-time analytics use case, exploring similarities and differences between the systems. While both platforms share some architectural similarities, they differ in their storage formats, query engines, and scalability models. The study highlights ClickHouse features beneficial to this use case, including its low cost, high performance, and ability to store intermediate state of aggregate functions, which provide significant advantages over Snowflake for real-time analytics applications.