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."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is the ability to control and manage the cost."
"The performance has been good."
"The Snowflake features I find most beneficial for data analysis are primarily related to analytics, particularly their features like materialized views and queues, which are especially useful for dashboarding purposes."
"Time Travel and Snowpipe are good features."
"Features like the fact that the solution is very fast and available on the cloud are some of the valuable attributes of the solution."
"I am impressed with the product's data-sharing feature."
"The computational power of Snowflake is very good."
"Deployment is straightforward as it's a SaaS product. No maintenance required."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"One area that could benefit from enhancement is the user interface for more visual ESM features."
"The solution needs to consider including some updates in the future."
"The scheduling of jobs requires improvement, particularly in terms of the user interface which currently lacks certain features found in comparable platforms."
"Implementing everything on-premise is challenging because it require proper support from advisors, DBAs, and others."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"Machine learning should be improved."
"The product's cost is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 30 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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