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."
"It's a scalable solution because you can analyze a huge amount of data in the solution."
"Snowflake Analytics is pretty easy to use with the connectors for integration with the tools and systems in my company."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering."
"Very good flexibility and it offers computation completely decoupled from the storage."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is its performance."
"Time Travel and Snowpipe are good features."
"The performance has been good."
"It's not necessary to use a physical server."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"Implementing everything on-premise is challenging because it require proper support from advisors, DBAs, and others."
"The distribution methodology isn't as strong as Bethesda or SAP HANA. It's not as strong as other competitors."
"Integration into different Python and Jupyter notebooks needs to be improved."
"The scheduling of jobs requires improvement, particularly in terms of the user interface which currently lacks certain features found in comparable platforms."
"One notable absence in Snowflake's offerings is an on-premises solution."
"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."
"The technical support is not very good."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
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, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox.
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