We performed a comparison between SAP NetWeaver Business 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."It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."
"Data modeling is a valuable feature."
"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."
"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."
"It is a robust system."
"Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics."
"A robust and efficient product."
"Working with Parquet files is support out of the box and it makes large dataset processing much easier."
"Snowflake is a database, and it is very good and useful. The most interesting part is that memory management is very good in Snowflake. For a business intelligence project, SQL Server is taking a lot of time for reporting services. There are a lot of calculations, and the reporting time is shown as two minutes, whereas Snowflake is taking just two seconds for the same reporting services."
"The most valuable features are sharing data, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, performance, and speed."
"The snapshot feature is good, the rollback feature is good and the interface is user-friendly."
"The pricing is reasonable and matches the rest of the market."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"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."
"The querying speed is fast."
"Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier."
"The program is difficult to learn to use"
"The product could provide more features."
"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."
"Design and modeling could be simplified."
"It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us."
"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in Snowflake's integration with Python. We do a lot of SQL programming in Snowflake, but we go to a different tool to program when we have to in Python."
"Their UiPath, the workspace area, needs some work."
"It's difficult to know how to size everything correctly."
"The solution could improve the user interface and add functionality to the system."
"They need to incorporate some basic OLAP capabilities in the backend or at the database level. Currently, it is purely a database. They call it purely a data warehouse for the cloud. Currently, just like any database, we have to calculate all the KPIs in the front-end tools. The same KPIs again need to be calculated in Snowflake. It would be very helpful if they can include some OLAP features. This will bring efficiency because we will be able to create the KPIs within Snowflake itself and then publish them to multiple front-end tools. We won't have to recreate the same in each project. There should be the ability to automate raised queries, which is currently not possible. There should also be something for Exception Aggregation and things like that."
"The pricing of the solution should be much easier to calculate or find by yourself."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
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SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse writes "Powerful solution with good security and audit procedure features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is most compared with SAP BW4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse vs. Snowflake report.
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