We compared Snowflake and VAST Data based on our users reviews in five parameters. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Snowflake is praised for its easy setup, valuable features, and good customer service. However, it needs improvement in areas like pricing transparency, data integration, user interface, and documentation. On the other hand, VAST Data is commended for its simple and efficient setup, strong failover capability, and good customer service. It could benefit from enhancing its read/write ratio. The pricing perception and user ROI differ for both products.
"Very easy to use and easy to query."
"The tool is very easy to use. The solution’s desktop features are also very easy to use. Also, the product’s SQL-based connectivity is also good. It can connect with any tool."
"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."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The most valuable features are sharing data, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, performance, and speed."
"The feature that is really striking is the ability to translate the SQL workloads into the NoSQL version that can be used by Snowflake."
"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."
"Its speed and performance were the most valuable. Easy configuration of Snowflake in any cloud was also a benefit."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"It needs a bit more rigor and governance, which is something you don't get with newer tools. This makes it less enterprise scalable. Its governance and structure can be enhanced, which would really be valuable. I would like to see some kind of prebuilt functionality in terms of having almost like a pre-built data warehouse. A functionality for generating automated kind of pieces would be good."
"They do have a native connector to connect with integration tools for loading data, but it would be much better to have the functionality built-in."
"The scheduling system can definitely be better because we had to use external airflow for that. There should be orchestration for the scheduling system. Snowflake currently does not support machine learning, so it is just storage. They also need some alternatives for SQL Query. There should also be support for Spark in different languages such as Python."
"The cost is a bit high."
"Snowflake can improve its machine learning and AI capabilities."
"Snowflake needs transparency over costs and pricing."
"The solution should offer an on-premises version also. We have some requirements where we would prefer to use it as a template."
"This solution could be improved by offering machine learning apps."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 8th in NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays with 2 reviews. Snowflake is rated 8.4, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Qumulo and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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