We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse 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."I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"The solution is stable."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"The adaptation to development languages is most valuable. Our developers can SQL code or something else. It has been convenient in that regard."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just need to follow the documentation."
"Very easy to use and easy to query."
"The solution's computing time is less."
"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 technical support on offer is excellent."
"Snowflake is faster than on-premise systems and allows for variable compute power based on need."
"The solution is very stable."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."
"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."
"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"We would like to have an on-premises deployment option that has the same features, including scalability."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"Currently, Snowflake doesn't support unstructured data."
"More data governance and access control features would be a welcome addition."
"I don't know about GCP, if they have connected for GCP. If they don't, they should allow for it."
"If you go with one cloud provider, you can't switch."
"There are some stored procedures that we've had trouble with. The solution also needs to fine-tune the connectors to be able to connect into the system source."
"It's difficult to know how to size everything correctly."
IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 13th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse writes "Useful for ETL process and has good documentation ". 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 is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Amazon Redshift, Apache Hadoop, IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Teradata, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Snowflake report.
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