Outerbase AI vs Snowflake Cortex Search

Outerbase AI is a database platform with EZQL, an assistant that turns natural-language requests into queries, charts, and dashboards. It uses the database schema as context, and its AI query editor can generate queries, repair broken ones, and optimize results. Charts can be created from datasets or within AI conversations. Connections include Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift; listed provider integrations include DigitalOcean, Neon, Turso, and Cloudflare. Security features include two-factor authentication, database-role access, encryption, SSH tunneling, and private AI models not trained on customer data. Customer data stays in the customer’s database, while Outerbase stores an encrypted schema version. The free plan is free and includes up to 5 users, 1 base, 10 EZQL queries monthly, 3 saved queries, and 1 dashboard, for transactional databases only. Hobby is $9 a month and Pro is $30 a month, per user and billed annually. Desktop apps support Mac devices with M1 or newer chips and modern Windows devices. Self-hosting is available only to Enterprise customers.

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