We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"The computational power of Snowflake is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is its performance."
"Very good flexibility and it offers computation completely decoupled from the storage."
"The solution auto-scales and it provides concurrency."
"The performance has been good."
"Snowflake Analytics' most valuable feature is its inbuilt infrastructure for executing queries, which I don't have to manage based on my data volume as it's taken care of by Snowflake."
"Snowflake Analytics is pretty easy to use with the connectors for integration with the tools and systems in my company."
"The platform not only provides ease of use but also stands out for its speedy execution, conveying a sense of robustness and reliability that I find appealing."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"The distribution methodology isn't as strong as Bethesda or SAP HANA. It's not as strong as other competitors."
"If you have a lot of computations, it becomes very costly."
"The UI must be improved."
"Moving data from legacy systems to Snowflake is not that easy. There are some cases where processors are not actually compatible with Snowflake."
"One notable absence in Snowflake's offerings is an on-premises solution."
"The solution’s interface is good but it could be improved."
"The scheduling of jobs requires improvement, particularly in terms of the user interface which currently lacks certain features found in comparable platforms."
"Machine learning in Snowflake isn't as advanced as in other products. I haven't heard of any successful industry-wide use cases of machine learning implemented in Snowflake. It might take a couple of years to reach the same level as Databricks."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 31 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Snowflake Analytics is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake Analytics writes "A scalable tool useful for data lake and data mining processes". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox.
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