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 standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"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."
"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 best thing about Snowflake is its flexibility in changing warehouse sizes or computational power."
"Great scalability and near zero maintenance."
"This solution has helped our organization by being easy to maintain and having good technical support."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Its speed and performance were the most valuable. Easy configuration of Snowflake in any cloud was also a benefit."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is its performance. We can access the data quickly. Additionally, it handles structured and non-structured data."
"The snapshot feature is good, the rollback feature is good and the interface is user-friendly."
"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 areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"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."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"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."
"They have a new console, but I couldn't figure out anything in the new console. So, if I shift to the old console, I can figure out where to create the database schema and other things, but I have no idea where to go in the new console. That's one thing they can improve. I don't know why they created a new console to confuse. The old, classic console is much better."
"Its stability could be better."
"The cost efficiency and monitoring of this solution could be improved. It's easy to spend a lot on Snowflake and it does offer monitoring tools but they're pretty basic."
"Product activation queries can't be changed while executing."
"There are some challenges with loading unstructured data and integrating some message queues or brokers. In one project, we had a problem connecting to one of the message queues and we had to take a different route altogether on Microsoft Azure."
"Getting data out of the tool to third-party applications is difficult."
"It needs a bit more rigor and governance, which is something you don't get with newer tools. This makes it less enterprise scalable. Its governance and structure can be enhanced, which would really be valuable. I would like to see some kind of prebuilt functionality in terms of having almost like a pre-built data warehouse. A functionality for generating automated kind of pieces would be good."
"Availability is a problem."
IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 8 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.6, 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 BigQuery, 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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