We performed a comparison between Actian Ingres and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."The deployment of our solution across a number of servers using Ingres .NET has meant that we can protect the database server behind a highly secure firewall and deploy the front end solutions on a normal web server."
"The product is quite fast."
"The solution's computing time is less."
"It is a very easy-to-use solution. It is user-friendly, and its setup time is very less."
"It is quite easy to manage."
"The solution speeds up the process of onboarding."
"It was relatively easy to use, and it was easy for people to convert to it."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is it's an all-in-one data warehousing solution."
"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 ability to reset the log file without stopping the DBMS would be helpful for us."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"Availability is a problem."
"To ensure the proper functioning of Snowflake as an MDS, it relies heavily on other partner tools."
"Snowflake has support for stored procedures, but it is not that powerful."
"In a future release we would like to have a link which would allow us to connect to an external database and create certain views in your own database. This is because it is becoming hard for us to compare the data between multiple sources."
"From the documentation, the black box is not very descriptive. Snowflake does not reveal how exactly the data is processed or sourced."
"It would be better if they had a data profile tool that tells me where the gaps are in my time series data."
"We would like to see more security including more masking and more encryption at the database level."
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Actian Ingres is ranked 22nd in Data Warehouse while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. Actian Ingres is rated 9.0, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Actian Ingres writes "Good multi-platform SQL compatibility, as well as performance and data integrity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Actian Ingres is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Databricks and Teradata, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation.
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