We performed a comparison between Snowflake and Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse 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."It is quite easy to manage."
"Snowflake's most valuable features are data enrichment and flattening."
"The solution is easy to use."
"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."
"It has great flexibility whenever we are loading data and performs ELT (extract, load, transform) techniques instead of ETL."
"I like the idea that you can assign roles and responsibilities, limiting access to data."
"Its performance is most valuable. As compared to SQL Server, we are able to see a significant improvement in performance with Snowflake."
"Time travel is one feature that really helps us out."
"The cloud is ten times better than physical hardware; it is more cost-effective and the upgrade process is ten times easier."
"The product is reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of running queries."
"It doesn't enforce typical relational database constraints. Quite expensive."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
"Currently, Snowflake doesn't support unstructured data."
"They don't have any SLAs in place. It would be better if they did."
"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."
"There are some stored procedures that we've had trouble with. The solution also needs to fine-tune the connectors to be able to connect into the system source."
"The documentation could improve. They should provide architecture information."
"Snowflake has support for stored procedures, but it is not that powerful."
"It could be a bit more user-friendly."
"Stability-wise, we have had some issues with automation and the ability to handle large datasets."
"The cost of Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse has room for improvement."
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Snowflake is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Warehouse with 92 reviews while Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse is ranked 13th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 3 reviews. Snowflake is rated 8.4, while Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse is rated 8.0. 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 Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse writes "Is quick, easy to upgrade, and cost-effective". Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata and Vertica, whereas Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse is most compared with Amazon Redshift, Teradata, Oracle Exadata, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Vertica.
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