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."The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."
"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."
"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."
"It is a robust system."
"Data modeling is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The feature that is really striking is the ability to translate the SQL workloads into the NoSQL version that can be used by Snowflake."
"The most valuable features are sharing data, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, performance, and speed."
"I like the ability to work with a managed service on the cloud and that is easy to start with."
"Data Science capabilities are the most valuable feature."
"It is quite easy to manage."
"It is a very good platform. It can handle structured and semi-structured data, and it can be used for your data warehouse or data lake. It can load and deal with any data that you have. It can extract data from an on-premises database or a website and make it available in the cloud. It has very fast implementation and integration as compared to other solutions. There is no need for the DBA to manage or do the day-to-day DBA tasks, which is one of the greatest things about it."
"Its speed and performance were the most valuable. Easy configuration of Snowflake in any cloud was also a benefit."
"The solution speeds up the process of onboarding."
"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."
"The program is difficult to learn to use"
"Design and modeling could be simplified."
"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."
"The product could provide more features."
"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."
"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."
"Snowflake could improve if they had an Operational Data Store(ODS) space."
"There could be better ELT tools that are appropriate for Snowflake. We decided on Matillion and it seemed to be the only one. There need to be better choices, it would be great if Snowflake provided an ELT solution that people could use. Additionally, if there was a pure cloud-based ELT tool it would be useful."
"I see room for improvement when it comes to credit performance. The other thing I'd like to be improved is the warehouse facility."
"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."
"They need to improve its ETL functionality so that Snowflake becomes an ETL product. Snowpipe can do some pipelines and data ingestion, but as compare to Talend, these functionalities are limited. The ETL feature is not good enough. Therefore, Snowflake can only be used as a database. You can't use it as an ETL tool, which is a limitation. We have spoken to the vendor, and they said they are working on it, but I'm not sure when they will bring it to production."
"Sometimes it can be tricky to manage multiple environments if you're purely using Snowflake as your scripting and pipeline environment."
"Support needs improvement, as it can take several days before you get some initial support."
"I would like to see more transparency in data processing, ATLs, and compute areas - which should give more comfort to the end users."
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SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 15th 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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