We performed a comparison between Microsoft Analytics Platform System and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Cube Solution is quite different when compared to the rest of the competition and has unique functionality for advanced analytics."
"Helps our customers to discover trends, which provides useful information based on their business."
"I like that it's integrated with other Azure products."
"We leverage its capabilities for many applications. We can integrate with our databases, like Oracle, MySQL, or any other, using Microsoft Integration Services."
"This solution will connect to any database, you can combine databases, and you can create a cube or tabular model."
"Microsoft Analytics Platform System's most valuable feature is its ecosystems and seamless integration with other Microsoft reporting platforms and databases."
"This is a well-integrated solution and that integration empowers results."
"It is closely integrated with other products in the MS portfolio."
"My company wanted to have all our data in one single place and this what we use Snowflake for. Snowflake also allows us to build connectors to different data sources."
"The Time Travel feature is helpful for accessing historical data and the ability to clone external tables is useful."
"Scaling is a big plus point of Snowflake."
"The feature that is really striking is the ability to translate the SQL workloads into the NoSQL version that can be used by Snowflake."
"Snowflake has three great features: Snowpiping is proving to be very valuable, Time Travel is excellent, and Snowpipes are another great functionality the solution has made available."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"All the people who are working with Snowflake are extremely happy with it because it is designed from a data-warehousing point of view, not the other way around. You have a database and then you tweak it and then it becomes a data warehouse."
"From a data warehouse perspective, it's an excellent all-round solution. It's very complete."
"Microsoft Analytics Platform System could have better support."
"The flexibility of this solution needs to be improved because you cannot make changes at every one of the different steps."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"Machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities need to be more friendly for beginning users."
"Functionality needs to be more up-to-date with competing products."
"Hybrid environments are complex to manage."
"Releases of new products and functionality is never accompanied by associated documentation, training and resources that adequately explain the release."
"We need better real-time analytics capabilities. It's a bit challenging for us."
"It's not that flexible when compared to Oracle."
"The data science functionality could be improved in terms of the machine learning process."
"We would like to be able to do modeling with Snowflake. It should support statistical modeling."
"I would like to see a client version of the GUI."
"Every product has room for improvement, although in this case, it needs some broadening of the functionality."
"Snowflake could improve if they had an Operational Data Store(ODS) space."
"The solution needs more connectors."
"Snowflake has support for stored procedures, but it is not that powerful."
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Microsoft Analytics Platform System is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. Microsoft Analytics Platform System is rated 6.6, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Analytics Platform System writes "Offers smooth data integration between systems, but requires better real-time analytics capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Microsoft Analytics Platform System is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Teradata and IBM Netezza Performance Server, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our Microsoft Analytics Platform System vs. Snowflake report.
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