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."
"It requires no maintenance on our part. They handle all that. The speed is phenomenal. The pricing isn't really anything more than what you would be paying for a SQL server license or another tool to execute the same thing. We have zero maintenance on our side to do anything and the speed at which it performs queries and loads the data is amazing. It handles unstructured data extremely well, too. So, if the data is in a JSON array or an XML, it handles that super well."
"I like Snowflake's data exchange capabilities. It can exchange data with downstream systems and other vendor partners as well."
"The querying speed is fast."
"It was relatively easy to use, and it was easy for people to convert to it."
"Data Science capabilities are the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is its performance. We can access the data quickly. Additionally, it handles structured and non-structured data."
"Its performance is a big advantage. When you run a query, its performance is very good. The inbound and outbound share features are also very useful for sharing a particular database. By using these features, you can allow others to access the Snowflake database and query it, which is another advantage of this solution. It has good security, and we can easily integrate it. We can connect it with multiple source systems."
"It is a very good platform. It can handle structured and semi-structured data, and it can be used for your data warehouse or data lake. It can load and deal with any data that you have. It can extract data from an on-premises database or a website and make it available in the cloud. It has very fast implementation and integration as compared to other solutions. There is no need for the DBA to manage or do the day-to-day DBA tasks, which is one of the greatest things about it."
"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either."
"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."
"Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
"Product activation queries can't be changed while executing."
"The product's performance could be improved."
"The solution could improve the user interface and add functionality to the system."
"I see room for improvement when it comes to credit performance. The other thing I'd like to be improved is the warehouse facility."
"We would like to see more security including more masking and more encryption at the database level."
"Its stability could be better."
"An additional feature I'd like to see is called materialized views, which can speed up some run times. I'd like it to be able to be used where you can have multiple tables inside them; materialized view. That would be nice. As well as being able to run cursors, to be able to do some bulk updates and some more advanced querying, table building on the fly."
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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