We performed a comparison between Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum 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."Snowflake's most valuable features are data enrichment and flattening."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is it's an all-in-one data warehousing solution."
"It is a cloud solution with many useful features. It has the data science capability. It can transform data and prepare data for a data science project with scalability."
"Its performance is most valuable. As compared to SQL Server, we are able to see a significant improvement in performance with Snowflake."
"The ability to share the data and the ability to scale up and down easily are the most valuable features. The concept of data sharing and data plumbing made it very easy to provide and share data. The ability to refresh your Dev or QA just by doing a clone is also valuable. It has the dynamic scale up and scale down feature. Development and deployment are much easier as compared to other platforms where you have to go through a lot of stuff. With a tool like DBT, you can do modeling and transformation within a single tool and deploy to Snowflake. It provides continuous deployment and continuous integration abilities. There is a separation of storage and compute, so you only get charged for your usage. You only pay for what you use. When we share the data downstream with business partners, we can specifically create compute for them, and we can charge back the business."
"Data Science capabilities are the most valuable feature."
"As long as you don't need to worry about the storage or cost, this solution would be one of the best ones on the market for scalability purposes."
"This solution has helped our organization by being easy to maintain and having good technical support."
"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."
"With VMware Tanzu Greenplum, one can make a huge database table and analyze the queries by adding in the SQL command. Some hint or command for the query goes over the multi-parallel execution."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"Scalability is simple because it's an MPP database. If you need more processing power or you need more storage, you just add a few more nodes in the cluster. It works on common commodity hardware. You can use any type of server. You don't need to have proprietary hardware. It's fairly flexible."
"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics."
"The solution should offer an on-premises version also. We have some requirements where we would prefer to use it as a template."
"We would like to have an on-premises deployment option that has the same features, including scalability."
"The user interface continues to be an issue, especially when we need to get data out of Snowflake. It's very easy to get data in, but it's not too easy to get it out or extract it."
"There is a need for improvements in the documentation, this would allow more people to switch over to this solution."
"These days, they are pushing users towards the GUI or graphical version. However, I am more familiar with the classic version. I'd like to continue to work with it using the older approach."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"Product activation queries can't be changed while executing."
"I would like to see more transparency in data processing, ATLs, and compute areas - which should give more comfort to the end users."
"We would like to see Greenplum maintain a closer relationship with and parity to features implemented in PostgreSQL."
"VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database."
"I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement."
"They should add more analytics. Their documentation could also be improved so that I don't have to bother my co-workers and tech support so often."
"they need to interact more with customers. They need to explain the features, especially when there are new releases of Greenplum. I know just from information I've found that it has other features, it can be used to for analytics, for integration with Big Data, Hadoop. They need to focus on this part with the customer."
"One of the disadvantages, not a disadvantage with the product itself, but overall, is the expertise in the marketplace. It's not easy to find a Greenplum administrator in the market, compared to other products such as Oracle."
"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."
"Initial setup is a little complex. It took around two weeks to deploy."
Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Snowflake is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. 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 VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop and Amazon Redshift. See our Snowflake vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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