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."The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"I like the ability to work with a managed service on the cloud and that is easy to start with."
"The distributed architecture of Snowflake has the capacity to process huge datasets faster and allows us to scale up and down according to our needs."
"It is a very well-distributed system. It has different data engines for different applications. Many applications can use different computational engines at the same time. In terms of data processing, the feeling was similar to working with a relational database but in a scalable way."
"From a data warehouse perspective, it's an excellent all-round solution. It's very complete."
"Snowflake is scalable both in terms of the amount of data that you can run through it and the number of users that engage with it."
"The tool's performance is good. I think it's the best in the game right now. It usually charges per query. For example, if you run a SQL query on Snowflake with the same number of data records, it would take less than half the time compared to running it on Microsoft. It has good documentation. You can pick up Snowflake if you have previous knowledge of SQL."
"It's ultra-fast at handling queries, which is what we find very convenient."
"The product's most important feature is unloading data to S3."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"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."
"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 areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"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."
"It doesn't enforce typical relational database constraints. Quite expensive."
"Snowflake needs transparency over costs and pricing."
"To ensure the proper functioning of Snowflake as an MDS, it relies heavily on other partner tools."
"Its stability could be better."
"We would like to have an on-premises deployment option that has the same features, including scalability."
"The solution could improve the user interface and add functionality to the system."
"They don't have any SLAs in place. It would be better if they did."
"I don't know about GCP, if they have connected for GCP. If they don't, they should allow for it."
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, Teradata and IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud, 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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