We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The way that it scales will help a lot of customers that are stuck with Netezza boxes that can't grow any larger."
"The performance is okay as long as the volume of queries is not too high."
"It will be MPP, so performance should improve."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Can be leveraged with respect to better performance, auto tuning and competition."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot database. In one second, you can just take a snapshot of the database for test purposes."
"The feature that is really striking is the ability to translate the SQL workloads into the NoSQL version that can be used by Snowflake."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is its performance. We can access the data quickly. Additionally, it handles structured and non-structured data."
"The ETL and data ingestion capabilities are better in this solution as compared to SQL Server. SQL Server doesn't do much data ingestion, but Snowflake can do it quite conveniently."
"Very easy to use and easy to query."
"Great scalability and near zero maintenance."
"Right now, we are implementing on ESX VMware 6.0. Support for this platform is poor. Also, one of the backup/recovery options is broken and IBM is not addressing the issue."
"Tech support for dashDB is awful. We usually have tickets open for three to four weeks."
"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either."
"Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."
"There is a scope for improvement. They don't currently support integration with some of the Azure and AWS native services. It would be good if they can enhance their product to integrate with these services."
"The solution could improve by allowing non-structured data, such as PDFs, images, or videos. We cannot see the data."
"I am still in the learning stage. It has good security, but it can always be more secure."
"I would like to see a client version of the GUI."
"We would like to be able to do modeling with Snowflake. It should support statistical modeling."
"Snowflake needs to improve its programming part. Though the tool has Snowpath, it doesn’t support all features like its competitor, Databricks. Snowflake doesn’t support external data ingestion capabilities. You need to have third-party tools for that. Also, the tool needs to incorporate data integration features in its future releases."
"The data science functionality could be improved in terms of the machine learning process."
"In future releases, it can also support full unstructured data."
IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is ranked 15th in Cloud Data Warehouse while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is rated 7.6, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud writes "The "prefetch" feature anticipates needed data and keeps it available. BLU acceleration determines what data is unqualified for analysis and skips it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is most compared with IBM Db2 Warehouse, Amazon Redshift and IBM Netezza Performance Server, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud vs. Snowflake report.
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