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Contents
Vendor Directory 4
Top Vendors 5-7
Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 8
Focus on Solutions
Snowflake 9 - 11
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 12 - 14
Azure Data Factory 15 - 17
Amazon Redshift 18 - 20
BigQuery 21 - 23
Vertica 24 - 26
Snowflake Analytics 27 - 29
SAP Business Warehouse 30 - 32
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse 33 - 35
Amazon EMR 36 - 38
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Vendor Directory
Amazon Amazon Redshift OpenText Vertica
Amazon AWS Lake Formation Oracle Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
Amazon Amazon EMR Revefi Revefi
Dremio Dremio SAP SAP Business Warehouse
Firebolt Firebolt Silk Silk Platform
Google BigQuery Snowflake Computing Snowflake
IBM IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Snowflake Computing Snowflake Analytics
Microsoft Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Teradata Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse
Microsoft Azure Data Factory Yellowbrick Data Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse
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Top Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions

Over 741,611 professionals have used PeerSpot research. Here are the top Cloud Data Warehouse vendors based on product
reviews, ratings, and comparisons. All reviews and ratings are from real users, validated by our triple authentication process.
Chart Key
Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating
Number of views Number of times compared Total number of reviews on Average words per review Average rating based on
to another product PeerSpot on PeerSpot reviews
Bar length
The total ranking of a product in a category, represented by the bar length, is based on a weighted aggregate score. The score is calculated
using the following factors:
ul>
li>Comparisons Views: the product with the highest number of comparisons with other products-in-the-category gets a
maximum of 25 points. Every other product gets assigned points based on its total in proportion to the #1 product
in that ranking factor. For example, if a product has 80% of the number of comparison views compared to the
product with the most reviews then the product's points for reviews would be 25 * 80%./li>
li>Views: We calculate the number of Views based on the percentage of category comparisons out of the total comparisons of the
product./li>
ul>
li>For example, if a product has 100 Comparisons with other products in the category and a total of 1,000 Comparisons,
the product will be assigned 10% of the total number of Views. If the product has a total of 2,000 Views,
it will be assigned 200 Views for this ranking factor./li>
li>The product with the highest number of views gets a maximum of 25 points.
Every other product gets assigned points based on its total in proportion to the #1 product in that ranking factor./li>
li>For example, if a product has 100 Comparisons with other products in the category and a total of 1,000 Comparisons,
the product will be assigned 10% of the total number of Views. If the product has a total of 2,000 Views,
it will be assigned 200 Views for this ranking factor./li>
/ul>
li>Reviews: the product with the highest number of reviews gets a maximum of 15 points. Every other product gets assigned points
based on its total in proportion to the #1 product in that ranking factor. For example, if a product has 80% of the number of
reviews compared to the product with the most reviews then the product's points for reviews would be 15 * 80%./li>
li>Rating: the maximum score is 25 points awarded linearly between 6-10/li>
ul>
li>e.g. 6 or below=0 points; 7.5=7.5 points; 9.0=18 points; 10=25 points./li>
/ul>
li>Words/Review: the maximum score is 10 points awarded linearly between 0-900 words/li>
ul>
li>e.g. 600 words = 4 points; 750 words = 7 points; 900 or more words = 10 points./li>
li>If a product has fewer than ten reviews, the point contribution for Rating and Words/Review is reduced: 1/3 reduction in points
for products with 5-9 reviews, two-thirds reduction for products with fewer than five reviews./li>
/ul>
/ul>
Reviews that are more than 24 months old, as well as those written by resellers, are completely excluded from the ranking algorithm.
All products with 50+ points are designated as a Leader in their category.
Rankings for June 2023 and earlier used our previous ranking methodology. Learn more here.
1 Snowflake
25,477 views 14,898 comparisons 44 reviews 473 words/review 8.3 average rating
2 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
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21,883 views 11,004 comparisons 41 reviews 431 words/review
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3 Azure Data Factory
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4 Amazon Redshift
5 BigQuery
6 Vertica
7 Snowflake Analytics
436 views 304 comparisons 19 reviews 418 words/review 8.4 average rating
8 SAP Business Warehouse
1,486 views 976 comparisons 13 reviews 612 words/review 7.9 average rating
9 Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
10 Amazon EMR
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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

Views
VIEWS
1 Snowflake 25,477
2 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 21,883
3 Amazon Redshift 9,833
4 Azure Data Factory 7,800
5 AWS Lake Formation 5,716
Reviews
REVIEWS
1 Azure Data Factory 46
2 Snowflake 44
3 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 41
4 Amazon Redshift 25
5 BigQuery 23
Words / Review
WORDS /
REVIEW
1 Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse 1,113
2 Dremio 627
3 SAP Business Warehouse 612
4 Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse 586
5 AWS Lake Formation 578
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Snowflake See 44 reviews >>
Overview
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing solution for storing and processing data, generating reports and dashboards,
and as a BI reporting source. It is used for optimizing costs and using financial data, as well as for migrating data from on-
premises to the cloud.
The solution is often used as a centralized data warehouse, combining data from multiple sources. Snowflake has helped
organizations improve query performance, store and process JSON and XML, consolidate multiple databases into one unified
table, power company-wide dashboards, increase productivity, reduce processing time, and have easy maintenance with
good technical support.
Its platform is made up of three components:
Cloud services: As part of its cloud services... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Accordant Media, Adobe, Kixeye Inc., Revana, SOASTA, White Ops
TOP COMPARISONS
BigQuery vs. Snowflake … Compared 14% of the time [See comparison]
Azure Data Factory vs. Snowflake … Compared 11% of the time [See comparison]
Teradata vs. Snowflake … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *
TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

Educational Organization … 24% Computer Software Company … 31%
Financial Services Firm … 13% Financial Services Firm … 22%
Computer Software Company … 10% Manufacturing Company … 7%
Manufacturing Company … 6% Non Profit … 4%
COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

1-200 Employees … 15% 1-200 Employees … 26%
1001+ Employees … 53% 1001+ Employees … 55%
* Data is based on the aggregate profiles of PeerSpot Users reviewing and researching this solution.
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Snowflake Continued from previous page
Top Reviews by Topic
VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>
Time travel is one feature that really helps us out. If there is some data discrepancy or something wrong that happens with the
table, at any point, we can get that data back and time travel via fail-safe features. They're really good. The feasibility to
increase horizontal or vertical scaling is great. It really helps a developer at an enterprise level. If you're considering scaling, it
Medha won't take much time. We can create cloning via Snowflake. There's a lot of time savings. The initial setup is simple. [Full
Valvekar
Review]
The most valuable feature of Snowflake is consumption-based costs, which means that you only pay for the storage and
compute you use. There's a complete separation of storage and computing, so you don't need to add another server to
increase storage or computing. From a costing perspective, it's well-positioned. Snowflake's time travel is also incredibly useful,
Chris Hastie and they have a function called "UNDROP," where you can undo a table drop. Data sharing and replication for Snowflake are
strong, and they have a data marketplace with public and private dat... [Full Review]
The query speed, and the way that it actually executes its queries is the most valuable aspect of the solution. We had some
queries that would take hours upon hours to run, and the Snowflake returns the results in about 15 minutes. It requires no
maintenance on our part. They handle all that. The speed is phenomenal. The pricing isn't really anything more than what you
Todd would be paying for a SQL server license or another tool to execute the same thing. We have zero maintenance on our side to
Burdell
do anything and the speed at which it performs queries and ... [Full Review]
I appreciate the Snowflake marketplace, where you can drop data and allow other people throughout the world to access it.
You can go to the Snowflake marketplace and connect to some data. If somebody else publishes, for example, COVID-19 data
or weather data, you can sign up for new data sets and bring them into your warehouse, which I found very interesting. You
Hemant can connect to different cloud sources, including Azure and AWS. You can report out, and all the cloud technologies have
Balijepalli
connected to Snowflake, allowing you to move the data or get the dat... [Full Review]
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>
The solution could use a little bit more UI. Something was in process, however, it's not yet deployed or in the version that I'm
using it is not deployed. If we have to use any table or any schema in other DB features, the prompt comes over after a dot.
Whenever we are using it it would really help if it looked better. If you're running a procedure, it just gives a standard error
Medha instead of the exact error captured. If you have to look at it, you need to go into the history to look into which query failed, and
Valvekar
we need to figure it out. Instead, if t... [Full Review]
The main thing I'm excited to see at some point with Snowflake, hopefully - I've not seen anything coming out of it yet - is Git
integration into the worksheets and the UI. Sometimes it can be tricky to manage multiple environments if you're purely using
Snowflake as your scripting and pipeline environment. This is handleable, so if you use third-party tools like DBT, Matillion, etc.,
Chris Hastie those can help. But if you're looking purely within Snowflake itself, it'd be great to have some form of Git support. For the future
releases, I would love it if they ... [Full Review]
One area for improvement would be the stored procedures. Currently, their stored procedures can only be executed at a
transactional level versus being able to run and do updates and run things in a sequence. An additional feature I'd like to see is
called materialized views, which can speed up some run times. I'd like it to be able to be used where you can have multiple
Todd tables inside them; materialized view. That would be nice. As well as being able to run cursors, to be able to do some bulk
Burdell
updates and some more advanced querying, table building on... [Full Review]
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Snowflake Continued from previous page
I don't know about GCP, if they have connected for GCP. If they don't, they should allow for it. Overall, they're doing great. I
don't have any specific complaints or improvements that need to happen. [Full Review]
Hemant
Balijepalli
PRICING, SETUP COST AND LICENSING See more Pricing, Setup Cost And Licensing >>
The pricing is fair for all the features that Snowflake is providing. The way Snowflake has emerged in the past few years is
impressive. It was just a beginner in the space, and it has become a leader in the market. For all the features it provides at a
basic cost, it is impressive. There are no extra costs involved unless you need to scale and grow and need more in terms of
Medha size. When we started, a medium-size was sufficient. We'd since needed more. The solution allows us to suspend our
Valvekar
warehouse as well if we would like. That said, even if you're ... [Full Review]
For our licensing, we renew every January by $25,000 in both credits. Their pricing structure is a pay-per-second usage in
terms of credits, but you can get discounts if you buy them in bulk. I think it's $1.10 an hour in terms of usage. We just buy
upfront and that gets us taken care of for the whole year. [Full Review]
Todd
Burdell
It is hard to say because we're usually engaged in the transition as opposed to the long term. Their storage costs are easily
within pennies of what AWS S3 would normally cost. Most of the clients I've been working with are in the financial sector, and
they're relatively small. I would put them in an SMB connection. The first thing we have to bring up for people is that they're
Charles going to build this. They shouldn't store their data in S3. They should pipeline directly into Snowflake and use it on their
Dove
storage. So, the cost is a big issue because thes... [Full Review]
Snowflake is expensive, but when I consider what we get for that price, it's fair. I rate the solution three out of five for
affordability, right in the middle. [Full Review]
Anthony
Fiorino
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics See 43 reviews >>
Overview
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is an end-to-end analytics solution that successfully combines analytical services to merge
big data analytics and enterprise data warehouses into a single unified platform. The solution can run intelligent distributed
queries among nodes, and provides the ability to query both relational and non-relational data.
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is built with these 4 components:
Synapse SQL
Spark
Synapse Pipeline
Studio
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Features
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics has many valuable key features, including:
Cloud Data Service: WIth Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can operate services (data analytics, machine learning, data
warehousing, dashboarding, etc.) in... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Toshiba, Carnival, LG Electronics, Jet.com, Adobe,
TOP COMPARISONS
Azure Data Factory vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics … Compared 22% of the time [See comparison]
Snowflake vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics … Compared 11% of the time [See comparison]
SAP BW4HANA vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics … Compared 11% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 11% Financial Services Firm … 17%
Financial Services Firm … 9% Healthcare Company … 11%
Manufacturing Company … 5% Manufacturing Company … 11%

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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Continued from previous page
What I found most valuable in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is that it's native only for Azure, so you get better
performance and there's no issue. To explain further, many different types of data come, in particular, structured and
unstructured data. For audit purposes, there's also unstructured data, so the most important aspect is that with Microsoft Azure
Mukund Synapse Analytics, you have the capability of using both technologies, meaning that you can use or mix structured and
Mishra
unstructured data which is important. This can also be done in Hadoop, ... [Full Review]
The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are its serverless flexibility and complete power have allowed
me to explore various different use cases. While I am not an expert in the product, my experience in programming in
Databricks has shown me that Microsoft's investments in Synapse could potentially lead to it becoming a complete
Akhil replacement for Databricks in the future. [Full Review]
Bhardwaj
The solution operates like a typical SQL Server environment so there is no alienation in terms of technical knowledge. A
developer will feel at home using the solution. [Full Review]
Dhruv Singh
Synapse makes it easy to integrate and onboard data from other Microsoft and Azure sources. The interface is familiar
because we were using Azure Data Factory before Synapse. It made the transition even easier because the Synapse interface
is exactly the same. [Full Review]
Ashwin
Baatjes
An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its user interface. You can use it for analytical purposes, but
its platform should be a little bit more user-friendly. Another small point for improvement in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
is its stability. It's good currently, but it could still be improved. Microsoft is combining different tools and technologies into one
Mukund solution, so in the future, I'm expecting to see even more improvement in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. An additional
Mishra
feature I'd like to see in the next ver... [Full Review]
I think potential areas to improve on could be performance and if they offered a decoupled compute from storage kind of
service that would be nice. But I don't think that is possible as it's a fundamental change in the underlying architecture and
Microsoft won't make that decision easily. [Full Review]
Mandar
Garge
In the future, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics has the potential to enhance its capabilities by expanding its connectors,
specifically with regard to Oracle solutions, such as operating systems. This would involve a comprehensive approach to
adding more connectors for both data input and consumption purposes. By doing so, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics would
Akhil be better equipped to meet the diverse needs of its users and achieve greater efficiency in its performance. The provision of
Bhardwaj
more connectors is definitely a crucial area that needs improve... [Full Review]
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Continued from previous page
The product needs a tool that allows for work from a laptop instead of a browser. When working in on-premises environments,
it is important to have all tools installed on a laptop rather than relying on internet connectivity which is a big inconvenience.
For example, it would be brilliant to add an integration on Visual Studio to create all pipelines in an offline mode. The solution
Dhruv Singh cannot store much data and might require purchasing additional storage. For example if you have 1 TB of data, processing it in
the solution will cost ten times more than... [Full Review]
Azure Synapse is best for people who are already invested in Microsoft technologies, in particular those who already use
Microsoft data warehousing services, including MS SQL-Server based data warehouse technology. For them, migrating to
Azure is very straight forward and Synapse adoption stays easy. With Azure Synapse, there is no database installation, no
Mandar licensing cost, no hardware setup, everything is available as a cloud service, you then pay for the service, pay only for what
Garge
you use. With regards to pricing, as I said you pay for what you use... [Full Review]
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can be costly, however, a cost-effective approach would be to purchase it in advance
through reservation for either one or three years. This will significantly reduce the overall expenses incurred. [Full Review]
Akhil
Bhardwaj
The solution is very expensive because it often requires the purchase of additional storage. Many customers are willing to pay
for something that is available in the open source market. If the price of the solution isn't reduced, it will not sell well in the
future. I rate the price an eight out of ten. [Full Review]
Dhruv Singh
There's no license required for Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. the model is more of a use-based system. You got to pay
for computing power and disk storage. Everything has different units and is kept backed up. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
uses storage units(SU). This is how everything's computed for cost. [Full Review]
Matthew
Spieth
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Azure Data Factory See 46 reviews >>
Overview
Azure Data Factory is a managed cloud service built for extract-transform-load (ETL), extract-load-transform (ELT), and data
integration projects. This is a digital integration tool as well as a cloud data warehouse that allows users to create, schedule,
and manage data in the cloud or on premises. The use cases of the product include data engineering, operational data
integration, analytics, ingesting data into data warehouses, and migrating on-premise SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
packages to Azure.
The tool allows users to create data-driven workflows for initiating data movement and data transformation at scale. Data can
be ingested from disparate data stores via pipelines. Companies can utilize this product to build complex ... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Milliman, Pier 1 Imports, Rockwell Automation, Ziosk, Real Madrid
TOP COMPARISONS
Informatica PowerCenter vs. Azure Data Factory … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]
Alteryx Designer vs. Azure Data Factory … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]
Informatica Cloud Data Integration vs. Azure Data Factory … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 13% Computer Software Company … 36%
Financial Services Firm … 13% Insurance Company … 10%
Manufacturing Company … 8% Energy/Utilities Company … 7%
Healthcare Company … 7% Financial Services Firm … 7%

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Azure Data Factory Continued from previous page
The most valuable aspect has been a large list of no-cost source and target adapters. It is also providing a PaaS ELT solution
that integrates with other Azure resources. Its graphical UI is very good and is even now improving significantly with the latest
preview feature of displaying inner activities within other activities such as forEach and If conditions. Its built-in monitoring and
Gary Melhaff ability to see each activity's JSON inputs/outputs provide an excellent audit trail. The trigger scheduling options are decently
robust. The fact that it's continua... [Full Review]
Initially, when we started using it, we didn't like it because it needed to be more mature and had data-flows, so we used the
traditional pipeline. After that, Azure Data Factory introduced the concept of data-flows, and it started to become more mature
and look more like Alteryx. Azure Data Factory became more user-friendly when data-flows were introduced. [Full Review]
Emad Afaq
Khan
The data factory agent is quite good and programming or defining the value of jobs, processes, and activities is easy. We have
the agent installed on-premises in order to gather information. The cloud includes all kinds of API connections so we can easily
gather information from other services. The solution seamlessly integrates with the Azure infrastructure. [Full Review]
Avi Shvartz
The feature I found most helpful in Azure Data Factory is the pipeline feature, including being able to connect to different
sources. I also found running Python codes whenever you need to valuable in Azure Data Factory, especially for certain
features of the solution, such as data integrations, aggregations, and manipulations. Azure Data Factory also has built-in
Mano security, which is another valuable feature. I also like that you get access to the whole Azure suite through Azure Data Factory,
Senaratne
so the overall architecture design, defining security and ... [Full Review]
The list of issues and gaps in this tool is extensive, although as time goes on, it gets shorter. It currently includes: 1) Missing
email/SMTP activity 2) Mapping data flows requires significant lag time to spin up spark clusters 3) Performance compared to
SSIS. Expect copy activity to take ten times that of what SSIS takes for simple data flow between tables in the same database
Gary Melhaff 4) It is missing the debug of a single activity. The workaround is setting a breakpoint on the task and doing a "rerun from
activity" or setting debug on activity and runni... [Full Review]
They introduced the concept of Flowlets, but it has bugs. Flowlets are a reusable component that allows you to create data-
flows. We can configure a Flowlet as a reusable pipeline and plug it inside different data-flows, so we don't have to rewrite our
code or visual transformation. If we make any changes in our data-flow, it reverts all our changes to the original state of the
Emad Afaq Flowlet. It does not retain changes, and we must reconfigure the Flowlets repeatedly. We had these issues three months ago
Khan
so things might have changed. It works fine wheneve... [Full Review]
The pricing model should be more transparent and available online. When you start programming, you define the fields,
variables, activities, and components but don't know the implication on price. You get a general idea but the more activities
you add, the more you pay. It would be better to know price implications up front. There is a calculator you can run to simulate
Avi Shvartz price but it doesn't help a lot. Practically speaking, you have to build your job and run it to see the exact price implications. This
is an issue because you might realize you are p... [Full Review]
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Azure Data Factory Continued from previous page
Areas for improvement in Azure Data Factory include connectivity and integration. When you use integration runtime,
whenever there's a failure, the backup process in Azure Data Factory takes time, so this is another area for improvement.
Database support in the solution also has room for improvement because Azure Data Factory only currently supports MS SQL
Mano and Postgres. I want to see it supporting other databases. If you want to connect the solution from on-premises to the cloud,
Senaratne
you will have to go with a VPN or a pretty expensive route connection.... [Full Review]
The setup cost is only the time it takes to organize Azure resources so you can operate effectively and figure out how to
manage different environments (dev/test/sit/UAT/prod, etc.). Also, how to enable multiple developers to work on a single data
factory without losing changes or conflicting with other changes. [Full Review]
Gary Melhaff
The cost is based on usage and the computing resources consumed. However, since Azure Data Factory connects with so
many different functionalities that Azure provides, such as Azure functions, Logic apps and others in the Azure Data Factory
pipelines, additional costs can be acquired by using other tools. [Full Review]
Emad Afaq
Khan
My company is on a monthly subscription for Azure Data Factory, but it's more of a pay-as-you-go model where your monthly
invoice depends on how many resources you use. On a scale of one to five, pricing for Azure Data Factory is a four. It's just the
usage fees my company pays monthly. No support fees because my company didn't need support from Microsoft. If you're not
Mano using core Microsoft products, the cost could be slightly higher, for example, when using a Postgres database versus an MS
Senaratne
SQL database. [Full Review]
I'm not too familiar with the cost, but I believe we're reasonably happy with what we're paying. My understanding is that the
cost of Data Factory is tied to consumption. It depends on the amount of data or the number of pipelines running, and the cost
varies from month to month depending on the usage. You'll obviously pay more if you're scheduling heavy digital
Brian transformation processes to run every hour, but I don't think there are any other hidden costs or anything extra. When you set
Sullivan
up a new account, you have a trial period that enables you to c... [Full Review]
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Amazon Redshift See 25 reviews >>
Overview
What is Amazon Redshift?
Amazon Redshift is a fully administered, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service. Users are able to begin with a
minimal amount of gigabytes of data and can easily scale up to a petabyte or more as needed. This will enable them to utilize
their own data to develop new intuitions on how to improve business processes and client relations.
Initially, users start to develop a data warehouse by initiating what is called an Amazon Redshift cluster or a set of nodes.
Once the cluster has been provisioned, users can seamlessly upload data sets, and then begin to perform data analysis
queries. Amazon Redshift delivers super-fast query performance, regardless of size, utilizing the exact SQL-based tools and BI
app... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Liberty Mutual Insurance, 4Cite Marketing, BrandVerity, DNA Plc, Sirocco Systems, Gainsight, Blue 449
TOP COMPARISONS
AWS Lake Formation vs. Amazon Redshift … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Amazon Redshift … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]
Snowflake vs. Amazon Redshift … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]

Financial Services Firm … 9% Retailer … 14%
Computer Software Company … 8% Logistics Company … 10%
Manufacturing Company … 4% Financial Services Firm … 5%

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Amazon Redshift Continued from previous page
Service accounts are used in both Amazon Redshift and Google Cloud. For example, I could create a service account for my
desktop to access Redshift or a service account for multiple users to access Redshift. In BigQuery, creating a service account is
very simple, and you get full control over the access, so you can limit what the service account can do. This prevents accidental
Tamás exposure of data or deletion of data. Only certain features are available, which is very handy. Postgres syntax requires 25
Srancsik
synthetic scrubs to Postgresify. It's handy, but t... [Full Review]
The main benefit is that our portal for end users is running in AWS, so we can easily connect it to other AWS services. The most
important part for us is the connectivity inside AWS. [Full Review]
Luca
Stephan
For reporting purposes, Redshift is a great tool to use. Redshift has an advantage when it comes to administration, making it
easier to manage and collaborate. Additionally, its server architecture allows for faster processing. Redshift also supports
prepaid costs, which is another great feature. However, similar features are also available in Azure. Redshift has some
Tranga TA advantages in terms of administration and performance. [Full Review]
The most valuable feature is its seamless integration within the AWS ecosystem. If your data is already in S3, it becomes easier
to port it into Redshift and work with it. Redshift allows you to transform different data formats and consolidate them into one
Redshift cluster. This means you can transform various siloed data sources like Excel files and CSV files into Redshift. With
Barathwaj Redshift, you get a suite of applications that enable you to drop a file and consume it into the data warehouse, facilitating the
Ramamoorth
y use of Power BI dashboards, Tableau dashb... [Full Review]
It would be good to see Redshift as a serverless offering. The proposition may be unclear, but at the time, there were certain
limitations with the pay-as-you-go offering. However, a serverless offering would be more flexible on-demand pricing, which
would be good to see because Redshift is not expensive, but I always have to buy a new server if I need more computing than
Tamás I have. Setting up a new server is an easy task, but it would be better if I could scale my Redshift cluster up or down as needed;
Srancsik
still, there is a need for manual control. For ex... [Full Review]
Pricing sometimes depends on the setup (key, etc.) which makes it hard for somebody new to AWS. Detailed research has to
be conducted to end up with a competitive solution in terms of pricing and performance. [Full Review]
Luca
Stephan
When compared to Snowflake, Amazon Redshift does not have the capability to dynamically increase the VM file. However,
Amazon Redshift provides a virtual database called 'VW' that allows you to increase the size of the warehouse to run faster on
a monthly basis without changing anything. This feature is not available in Redshift. So it's a limitation of Redshift. It's not
Tranga TA possible to immediately increase the virtual warehouse size in Amazon Redshift. When compared to Snowflake, we cannot
increase the virtual warehouse size in Redshift. [Full Review]
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As our scalability requirements and data growth exceeded expectations, Redshift didn't scale up to meet our business needs.
So, at that point, we made a switch to Snowflake, which provided the scalability we needed. So, scalability is one area of
improvement. One area where Amazon Redshift could improve is in adopting the compute-separate, data-separate
Barathwaj architecture, which Delta, Snowflake are adopting, and a few others in the cloud data warehouse spectrum. Although Redshift
Ramamoorth
y introduces Aqua to achieve some level of scalability, I still feel that whe... [Full Review]
The solution has very competitive pricing. It can be expensive for the first time when you are building your site. Time and the
amount of data also take some time to downsize. It would be cheaper than to have a server, but for Plexigos storage, you have
to buy a specific size of compute power. Initially, it was more expensive than BigQuery pay-as-you-go, but it got cheaper later.
Tamás The more data you have, the relative ratio becomes cheaper. It depends on the use case. In AWS, you must invest and
Srancsik
understand the setups, such as what kind of servers you ... [Full Review]
Redshift is costly compared to other solutions. It's pay per use. You can have multiple models. You can go for yearly cost,
which is a little discounted than the monthly cost. Depending on how much data you process and store, you can have different
pricing. There's no fixed cost. All of these are based on how much data you store monthly and how much data you process.
Mandar [Full Review]
Garge
Every solution has a cost and comes in different packages. Considering these factors, AWS Glue is on top. Though Amazon
Redshift is good, it depends on what kind of business you're trying to do, what type of analytics you need, and how much data
you have. For Amazon Redshift, we pay around INR 60,000 annually. The cost factor also depends on the number of existing
Syed customers. In addition to the standard licensing fee paid for AWS, we incur a cloud storage cost of around a quarter million for
Zakaulla
the amount of data. We also have to bear additional costs f... [Full Review]
I am not sure about the pricing of the tool since that's not my department. I know that Snowflake is cheaper to set up, manage,
and store data. On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing a seven. [Full
Review]
Mohit
Patange
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BigQuery See 23 reviews >>
Overview
BigQuery is an enterprise data warehouse that solves this problem by enabling super-fast SQL queries using the processing
power of Google's infrastructure. ... You can control access to both the project and your data based on your business needs,
such as giving others the ability to view or query your data.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
TOP COMPARISONS
Snowflake vs. BigQuery … Compared 48% of the time [See comparison]
Teradata vs. BigQuery … Compared 20% of the time [See comparison]
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse vs. BigQuery … Compared 8% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 16% Comms Service Provider … 7%
Financial Services Firm … 13% Construction Company … 7%
Manufacturing Company … 10% Energy/Utilities Company … 7%
Retailer … 7% Financial Services Firm … 7%

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BigQuery Continued from previous page
It allows our customers to adapt to various data types, including unstructured and flat data sets. BigQuery excels at structuring
data, performing predictions, and conducting insightful analyses and it leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence
capabilities, powered by Google's Duarte AI. It seamlessly integrates with Duarte AI, enabling the use of simple SQL queries to
Syed Waqas access Vertex AI foundation models directly within BigQuery. This unique capability is especially valuable for text-processing
Kazi
tasks, such as sentiment analysis. It provi... [Full Review]
The main thing I like about BigQuery is storage. We did an on-premise BigQuery migration with trillions of records. Usually, we
have to deal with insufficient storage on-premises, but in BigQuery, we don't get that because it's like cloud storage, and we
can have any number of records. That is one advantage. The next major advantage is the column length. We have some limits
Anonymous on column length on-premises, like 10,000, and we have to design it based on that. However, with BigQuery, we don't need to
design the column length at all. It will expand or shr... [Full Review]
The integrated data storage features are good. Altogether, it provides the required functionality. BigQuery is a single platform
that can support different use cases and data bandwidths, whereas other platforms may require additional data platforms for
each use case. [Full Review]
Shiva
Prasad
ELLUR
Its SQL editor is very easy to use and very easy to conceptualize. The way that it breaks data down into silos is easily
discernible. So, I guess that's really it. [Full Review]
Matt Costa
SQL queries remain a preferred choice for many IT database administrators, and BigQuery's ability to handle SQL queries
efficiently enhances its appeal. However, there's a challenge when it comes to integrating BigQuery with homegrown database
solutions, which some medium and small-sized clients rely on. While it's possible to test database integration with it using a
Syed Waqas sandbox environment, achieving seamless integration can be complex, especially for open data solutions. For greater flexibility
Kazi
and ease of use, it would be beneficial if BigQuery offe... [Full Review]
It would be better if BigQuery didn't have huge restrictions. For example, when we migrate from on-premises to on-premise,
the data which handles all ebook characters can be handled on-premise. But in BigQuery, we have huge restrictions. If we
have some symbols, like a hash or other special characters, it won't accept them. Not in all cases, but it won't accept a few
Anonymous special characters, and when we migrate, we get errors. We need to use Regexp or something similar to replace that with
another character. This isn't expected from a high-range technolo... [Full Review]
There are some limitations in the query latency compared to what it was three years ago. Despite this, BigQuery still provides
the necessary functionality as compared to the other platforms. An additional feature I would like is the one available in AWS,
where you have a framework to onboard past services and start building analytical models and data design. The framework
Shiva makes it easier for any new organization to adopt cloud computing quickly. [Full Review]
Prasad
ELLUR
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BigQuery Continued from previous page
Although BigQuery in completely managed on cloud, one has to use many services of BigQuery and GCP in order to create the
end-to-end data setup. BigQuery acts as the core Data Warehouse mechanism, but it needs additional services like - Google
Cloud Dataflow, Cloud pub/sub, Cloud BigTable, Cloud DataPrep, Cloud DataProc, Cloud SQL. Being different from the
Mandar traditional way of setting up end-to-end data engineering platform, the learning curve for BigQuery is a bit steeper. Google
Garge
BigQuery ecosystem can surely make the ecosystem a bit more leaner. [Full Review]
The pricing is adaptable, ensuring that organizations can tailor their usage and costs based on their specific requirements and
configurations within the Google Cloud Platform. You don't need multiple licenses; a single GCP BigQuery license suffices.
Once you have this license in place, you will be billed according to your chosen pricing model. Google offers flexibility in
Syed Waqas pricing models to accommodate the unique needs of different customers, making it a versatile and customer-centric solution.
Kazi
[Full Review]
I have tried my own setup using my Gmail ID, and I think it had a $300 limit for free for a new user. That's what Google is
offering, and we can register and create a project. [Full Review]
Anonymous
The costing model is a bit expensive as compared to its equivalent partners. If they can optimize the cost, it would be much
better. Otherwise, people would step back. I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten is for the cheapest, and
one is for being high priced. [Full Review]
Shiva
Prasad
ELLUR
One terabyte of data costs $20 to $22 per month for storage on BigQuery and $25 on Snowflake. Snowflake is costlier for one
terabyte but only marginally. Both charge differently for compute. BigQuery charges based on how much data is inserted into
the tables. Reading values from tables has no cost. BigQuery charges you based on the amount of data that you handle and
Mandar not the time in which you handle it. This is why the pricing models of Snowflake and BigQuery are different and this becomes a
Garge
key consideration in the decision of which platform to use. [Full Review]
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Vertica See 10 reviews >>
Overview
Vertica is a deploy-anywhere SQL database created for elasticity, speed, and advanced analytics. Vertica enables today’s
busy teams to modernize their data warehouses, democratize data and analytics to enable increased access, and deploy
analytics in a hybrid cloud environment. Additionally, Vertica merges how companies power their analytics by providing a
scalable, open, and elastic database with numerous intuitive features.
In today’s marketplace, organizations are experiencing continued robust growth of data volumes, and citizen data scientists’
broader use of analytics is causing many companies to re-visit and re-examine their systems in order to match the demands of
an aggressive marketplace. Analytics are continually swiftly evolving... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
TOP COMPARISONS
Snowflake vs. Vertica … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
SQL Server vs. Vertica … Compared 15% of the time [See comparison]
Amazon Redshift vs. Vertica … Compared 11% of the time [See comparison]

Financial Services Firm … 17% Computer Software Company … 24%
Computer Software Company … 15% Media Company … 21%
Manufacturing Company … 8% Marketing Services Firm … 17%
Comms Service Provider … 7% Financial Services Firm … 10%

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Vertica Continued from previous page
I appreciate the flexibility offered by Vertica's projections. It allows for modifying the primary projection without altering the
tables, which helps to optimize queries without the need to modify the underlying data. This feature enables us to fine-tune our
queries by modifying different projections, which is highly beneficial. [Full Review]
Sasidharan
Ravikumar
It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica. It has a lot of contents and machine
learning functions. Today we have a lot of options for deploying. It has a lot of integrations. [Full Review]
Osvaldo
JAra
Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions
need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure. Vertica is a column oriented database so
the response of queries is very fast. [Full Review]
Erick
Ramirez
I am highly trained on Vertica and I am resistant to using other products because I do not have experience with those products.
Some of the most valuable features are cybersecurity and backup. [Full Review]
Jelson
Ghigonetto
In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a
comprehensive understanding of the platform. Additionally, the community support for Vertica is limited, making it difficult to
find assistance or resources when needed. When it comes to data sharing or desktop usage, Snowflake has an advantage over
Sasidharan Vertica and other platforms such as cash. Snowflake provides reporting capabilities to share data between two different
Ravikumar
accounts, which is not currently available in Vertica. This fe... [Full Review]
We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature. First, we installed Vertica on the AWS cloud and
tried to read the data from Bitbucket to Vertica. We were able to read the data, but when we were trying to transform the data
and load it into Vertica physical tables, we experienced performance issues. Regarding additional features, we are unsure if
Monica Garg Vertica has updated its features, but we've experienced difficulty in integrating with third-party tools. Clients use multiple
technologies and value that integration. Sharing data... [Full Review]
I think they need an easy client so that you can write queries easily, but it's not necessarily a weak point. I think some users
would need them. In other versions of Vertica, there is a lack of integrations in some machine learning models. But today, the
latest version has it all. I don't think they need too much improvement in that area. For me, it's great considering the use case I
Osvaldo work with. [Full Review]
JAra
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Vertica Continued from previous page
* Support is an area where it could get better. * Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product
at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be. [Full Review]
Alberto
Guisande
The pricing depends on the license model because there are several. It depends on the client, but it's cheaper than other
solutions. I think it's cheap for all the functionality and robustness. It's not very expensive to deploy. [Full Review]
Osvaldo
JAra
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Snowflake Analytics See 19 reviews >>
Overview
Conventional data platforms and big data solutions struggle to deliver on their fundamental purpose: to enable any user to
work with any data, without limits on scale, performance or flexibility. Whether you’re a data analyst, data scientist, data
engineer, or any other business or technology professional, you’ll get more from your data with Snowflake.
To achieve this, we built a new data platform from the ground up for the cloud. It’s designed with a patented new architecture
to be the centerpiece for data pipelines, data warehousing, data lakes, data application development, and for building data
exchanges to easily and securely share governed data. The result, A platform delivered as a service that’s powerful but simple
to use.
Snowfl... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Lionsgate, Adobe, Sony, Capital One, Akamai, Deliveroo, Snagajob, Logitech, University of Notre Dame, Runkeeper
TOP COMPARISONS
Azure Data Factory vs. Snowflake Analytics … Compared 36% of the time [See comparison]
Adobe Analytics vs. Snowflake Analytics … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
Amplitude vs. Snowflake Analytics … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]
TOP INDUSTRIES COMPANY SIZE

Computer Software Company … 17% 1-200 Employees … 21%
Manufacturing Company … 10% 201-1000 Employees … 32%
Financial Services Firm … 9% 1001+ Employees … 47%
Retailer … 6%
COMPANY SIZE
1-200 Employees … 21%
201-1000 Employees … 16%
1001+ Employees … 63%
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Snowflake Analytics Continued from previous page
The solution is completely managed and that's fantastic. Its a true SaaS kind of Data platform. You can create analytical
products as a SaaS offering, nothing needs to be installed and no licenses needed. The solution can run on AWS, Azure and
on Google Cloud and you can choose the underlying cloud on which Snowflake creates your databases, uses different
Mandar services, stores your accounts and stores your data. It offers high flexibility. It offers computation completely decoupled from
Garge
the storage so you pay fees for computation cost only, and storage i... [Full Review]
The data integration is great. We don't have to do data pipeline creation or time travel testing. The storage is good. It's got
good optimization. We really like the engineering and the data within Snowflake. The performance has been good. We like
how we can have one copy that can be used in multiple places. [Full Review]
Anuj Jain
The advanced features like time travel, zero copy cloning and scalability have been most useful. Snowflake requires zero
maintenance for Data Warehousing on the cloud system. It is more secure compared to any other data platforms that we have
used. The tri secret key is the feature that gives a lot of confidence to customers. [Full Review]
Anil Kumar
Thripurari
What we found most valuable in Snowflake Analytics are its attributes that are very convenient for business use such as data
sharing, cloning, time travel, and fail-safe. It's a good product all in all. [Full Review]
Vishal
Anand
In your data platform, if you have a lot of computations, Snowflake can becomes costlier with. There can be some complexity
when designing your warehouses or enterprise data, but that is based on your requirements and not the underlying warehouse
that you choose. [Full Review]
Mandar
Garge
Moving data from legacy systems to Snowflake is not that easy. There are some cases where processors are not actually
compatible with Snowflake. If Snowflake could offer compatible versions of other legacy system objects, that would be more
convenient for anyone to move to Snowflake. When comparing MySQL with Snowflake, MySQL is faster in executing the
Anil Kumar complex queries compared to Snowflake. This is the only factor where Snowflake lags behind competitors in the market. [Full
Thripurari
Review]
A room for improvement in Snowflake Analytics is Spark, particularly its connector for Spark. An additional feature I'd like to
see in the next release of the solution is built-in analytics. [Full Review]
Vishal
Anand
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Snowflake Analytics Continued from previous page
One area that could benefit from enhancement is the user interface for more visual ESM features. Improving the visual
representation of security components, like boxes and links, could make it easier to understand and manage security aspects
within the platform. [Full Review]
Omar AKIL
The solution can become expensive when you increase your computation. So one has to design the solution very carefully and
optimally. Leverage it heavily for Storage, but for compute, make sure the resources (e.g. Virtual Warehouses, Snowpipe,
Streams, Tasks etc.) as well as the transformations are used in the most optimum way. For example, during the design time, the
Mandar technical team has to wisely think if your data marts can be Views or Tables (View consumes compute, but Tables consume
Garge
Storage), how frequently your data marts need an update, whether... [Full Review]
The product must improve its pricing model. We must scale it up considerably to get a good value. The tool is quite expensive.
The product must provide a pay-as-you-go pricing option. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten. If we run big workloads in
Snowflake, it will be more expensive than both BigQuery and Redshift. [Full Review]
Matthew
Richardson
When using Snowflake, you pay based on your usage. They calculate how much CPU has been used. If you use excess
warehouse storage, you are charged one credit per hour. If you are in Asia, you are charged $3 per credit. If you have 10 users
running parallel with the same excess, you will be charged $30. Pricing for storage is calculated in the same way. You will pay
Anil Kumar upfront for the storage that you know you will need to consume. There is this option of prepaid consumption as well as post
Thripurari
paid consumption. If you pay upfront, you will charged $20 per ... [Full Review]
I'm unable to give information about the licensing fees for Snowflake Analytics because it's the infrastructure team who takes
care of licensing completely. [Full Review]
Vishal
Anand
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SAP Business Warehouse See 13 reviews >>
Overview
Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of
companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business
Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate,
transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP
BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make
well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK
Ceramics, Vodafone
TOP COMPARISONS
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Business Warehouse … Compared 35% of the time [See comparison]
Snowflake vs. SAP Business Warehouse … Compared 34% of the time [See comparison]
Amazon Redshift vs. SAP Business Warehouse … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 13% Energy/Utilities Company … 15%
Manufacturing Company … 11% Manufacturing Company … 15%
Energy/Utilities Company … 8% Non Tech Company … 15%
Financial Services Firm … 7% Engineering Company … 8%

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SAP Business Warehouse Continued from previous page
SAP Business Warehouse has now been integrated with HANA. So, earlier, the SAP Business Warehouse's working speed was
slow. It would call for the data from the hard disk to the RAM and then RAM to the front end. But now, because of the HANA
integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually. So, within
Javed Khan a fraction of a second, you will get the output when you hit the required query. So, the integration of HANA is very powerful
right now. [Full Review]
Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great. SAP Business Warehouse is one of the best
data warehousing solutions that I've seen. I have hands-on on Azure and AWS, however, being an SAP Pro. The setup is pretty
simple. [Full Review]
Vinay
Lohakare
The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is transformation, where I extract data from different sources,
particularly the raw data. Then I do some transformations and store that in a format that allows me to do reporting easily. The
transformation feature in SAP Business Warehouse is the most useful. I also like that the solution has some reporting features.
Srikanth [Full Review]
Bashetty
What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is its ability to feed data into new, multiple systems in various formats. It can
open its data to any system over gateway services or a portal or application that needs to consume and analyze data. [Full
Review]
Sai
Chintapalli
SAP Business Warehouse could have been better. There is room for improvement from a technical perspective. So, from a
technical perspective, when we are upgrading a Business Warehouse server or we are migrating from one place to another,
the capability required for this upgradation has many manual activities. It took us around a month to streamline our server. Let’s
Javed Khan say there are some transaction codes. Transaction code is a set of programs, and when you want to run a program from the
backend, you need to hit the transaction code. It is called a T-c... [Full Review]
SAP Business Warehouse has a few areas for improvement. One is that it takes more work to get the data, including reporting
on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed. I also find the performance
reporting function of SAP Business Warehouse challenging, so that's another area for improvement. What I want to see in SAP
Srikanth Business Warehouse in the future is for it to be more user-friendly than Microsoft Power BI. I also found Microsoft Power BI
Bashetty
more flexible and quicker to learn than SAP Business W... [Full Review]
What I'd like to improve in SAP Business Warehouse is its data structure, that's a little bit rigid. It could be a bit more flexible, so
you can design your data structure and improve performance when creating a solution. Currently, the way data is stored in SAP
Business Warehouse is rigid. SAP has released BW/4HANA, and the database has changed. Still, in the next release of SAP
Sai Business Warehouse, I'd like to see the capability to run big data solutions and integration with other databases, such as
Chintapalli
Hadoop, which is currently not there. [Full Review]
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SAP Business Warehouse Continued from previous page
One area that could be improved is the Business Explorer still needs to be developer-friendly also. Another improvement
would be to develop certain connectors to get hold of the external data. That aspect also needs to be strengthened. It needs
to be reinforced because there were issues when we were integrating the SAP BW system with a source system, which is other
POonam than the SAP R3 system. The dependency that is currently there between SAP R3 and SAP BW, needs to be enhanced,
Chugh
augmented. In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendl... [Full Review]
I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much. If you consider all the ERP products, Microsoft and
Oracle are also selling their ERP products. Their pricing is very less as compared to SAP Business Warehouse. SAP is very
costly. If you compare it to Odoo, it is free of cost, while SAP is too costly. [Full Review]
Javed Khan
I was never involved in the pricing of SAP Business Warehouse because the sales team handles that. Still, as far as the
information I have, SAP licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market. [Full Review]
Srikanth
Bashetty
The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The
more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small
businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding
Sai pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm
Chintapalli
rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as ... [Full Review]
It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it,
like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else. So what you see on the bill at first is not exactly what you will pay, to say the
least. [Full Review]
Janos
Szakal
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Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse See 5 reviews >>
Overview
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads,
including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists,
business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size
and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster
performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.
Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store,
analyze, and understand all your data. The data lake... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Hertz, TaylorMade Golf, Outront Media, Kingold, FSmart, Drop-Tank
TOP COMPARISONS
Oracle Exadata vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse … Compared 32% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse … Compared 21% of the time [See comparison]
Snowflake vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse … Compared 18% of the time [See comparison]

Educational Organization … 41% Financial Services Firm … 22%
Financial Services Firm … 9% Manufacturing Company … 22%
Computer Software Company … 9% Computer Software Company … 22%
Government … 5% Comms Service Provider … 11%

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Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Continued from previous page
One advantage is that if you already have an Oracle Database, it easily integrates with that. If you are using structured data, it
works pretty well. They have engineered their hardware, which is based on Sun, to work with their database and data
warehouse in an optimal way. So, the data exchange is extremely fast and good. If it is just tabular data, it works really well. I
Abhik Ray like that part. [Full Review]
The integration feature is very good because you can automate protection security automatically, restricting the access of
unauthorized people. It can also maintain security in terms of service failure, service protection, and the duration of the
disruption. [Full Review]
Mehwish
Jawed
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse has plenty of valuable features. It has large amounts of flash cache. It has segregated IO.
It has something called smart scan, which other databases don't have. It has got plenty of stuff in the database. [Full Review]
Kwajah
Mohiuddin
There is a need for more storage to be allocated, but over a period of time, it becomes impossible to reduce it after using it. If
you use more storage and don't need it in the future, then you have to remove some data and use less storage. You cannot
dynamically add and reduce processors in the product. If you choose a larger storage capacity, later on, it is not easy to reduce
Miodrag the storage allocated. The aforementioned details contain areas that can be improved in the product. [Full Review]
Milojevic
It is good as data warehouses go, but it is not that good for really big data. It doesn't work well when you have unstructured
data or you need online analytics. It is not as nice as Hadoop in these aspects. [Full Review]
Abhik Ray
Oracle should increase visibility options because what's available now is limited. Experienced users are easily able to
understand everything, but from a layman's perspective, it's confusing and can be difficult to understand the steps required. In
that sense, the solution requires an upgrade. I recently worked with the machine learning model offered by Oracle and could
Mehwish only find the visualization, without other options. There should be additional 3D, and 4D representations as well as other
Jawed
options that competitors such as Azure are offering for mac... [Full Review]
Nothing comes to my mind that needs improvement in the tool. It pretty much has a whole great set of features. The installation
process is complex. Oracle can make the installation process better. [Full Review]
Kwajah
Mohiuddin
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Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Continued from previous page
The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products,
which for some companies, is very beneficial. You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward
Oracle. It is like hiring a cab where you need to pay depending on your ride. You can use the six processor units for five hours
Miodrag every day and then three processor units for the rest, but as you use it, you pay. Oracle should have calculated the costs on a
Milojevic
monthly level, but you can have some kind of... [Full Review]
Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The
licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users. [Full Review]
Abhik Ray
In terms of price, Oracle falls around the higher end, but that's because it's a superior product. On a scale from one to ten,
where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight. [Full Review]
Kwajah
Mohiuddin
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Amazon EMR See 11 reviews >>
Overview
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast
amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy,
fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2
instances.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Yelp
TOP COMPARISONS
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. Amazon EMR … Compared 27% of the time [See comparison]
Snowflake vs. Amazon EMR … Compared 24% of the time [See comparison]
Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon EMR … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]

Financial Services Firm … 22% Computer Software Company … 30%
Computer Software Company … 13% Wholesaler/Distributor … 20%
Manufacturing Company … 8% Comms Service Provider … 10%
Insurance Company … 5% Financial Services Firm … 10%

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One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you
wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the
latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes
Alexey out-of-the-box in EMR. [Full Review]
Gerasymov
It is easy to manage. The applications are much easier as compared to others. The solution is pretty simple to set up. It's stable
and reliable. The product can scale. [Full Review]
Prashant
Singh
In the main application, we use Hive, Spark, and Flink, and there are some additional small tools. We have to do this job inside
EMR itself and run from Airflow. We also use a service from Amazon, and we manage jobs through Airflow. There's lots of
scheduling, et cetera, that happens. Before, we used Jenkins. Now, we also integrate from Jenkins to Airflow and its
Ilya processes. It's easier to have everything connected via Amazon. [Full Review]
Afanasyev
It gives us multiple options from Infra to the WES and different tools. It has a variety of options and support systems. Plus, it
makes life easy for our developers, whether in the cloud or on-prem. Related DevOS installations are quick and easy to
maintain. [Full Review]
Vinay Kumar
Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user
interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services. [Full Review]
Rahul
Jadhav
The cost is increasing. We are looking into how we can optimize the cost part of EMR. We're doing a comparison between
Cloudera running on AWS and running AWS EMR. We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale
up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part. [Full Review]
Prashant
Singh
The problem for us is it starts very slow. They need to improve the start time. If we use a long-running EMR, it costs a lot of
money. However, when we start, for example, a job, if the job runs for one hour, it's normal as it starts in about ten minutes. If
we want, for example, to run each five minutes, it's a problem if it takes ten minutes to start. It's a little bit weird that you cannot
Ilya use the service within a short period. The support could be better. [Full Review]
Afanasyev
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Interdependencies with a third-party or open source solution should be improved. Modules and strategies should be better
handled and notified early in advance. Maybe if AWS starts releasing AWS-certified or AWS-verified installations, that will
generate even more confidence just like OpenJet, it'll add a specific version. [Full Review]
Vinay Kumar
You only pay for the EC2 fees for Amazon EMR. The number of clusters you launch and the time you use them determine the
fee. There is no additional license fee, as Amazon EMR is a fully managed service. You can use any open-source software that
is compatible with it. There is no need to pay extra for third-party software. [Full Review]
Quan Vu
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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 8

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 12 - 14

Azure Data Factory 15 - 17

SAP Business Warehouse 30 - 32

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse 33 - 35

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IBM IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Snowflake Computing Snowflake Analytics

Top Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions

Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating

2 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

8 SAP Business Warehouse

9 Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

2 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 21,883

3 Amazon Redshift 9,833

4 Azure Data Factory 7,800

5 AWS Lake Formation 5,716

1 Azure Data Factory 46

3 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 41

1 Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse 1,113

3 SAP Business Warehouse 612

4 Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse 586

5 AWS Lake Formation 578

Snowflake See 44 reviews >>

Its platform is made up of three components:

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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics See 43 reviews >>

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is built with these 4 components:

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Azure Data Factory See 46 reviews >>

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