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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon QuickSight
I'm likely to recommend it because it would become so native if other cloud services are based on AWS infrastructure, like our current setup. It is very seamlessly integrated with other services to feed in data for the visualization. In addition, supporting a reasonably large number of users concurrently is not an issue and should be able to scale horizontally as needed.

Verified User
Director in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesSnowflake
Specific scenarios where Snowflake is very strong include analytical data processing scenarios. Snowflake is wonderful at inexpensively consolidating and storing data and allowing very fast access to that data while maintaining a low cost profile with it's ability to automatically resume and suspend virtual warehouses. Snowflake is less suited to transaction processing scenarios and isn't a best choice to back up an online order processing system.
Data Practice Director
InterWorksInformation Services, 201-500 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
BI Standard Reporting
Amazon QuickSight
5.5
Snowflake
—
Pixel Perfect reports
Amazon QuickSight
6.5
Snowflake
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Customizable dashboards
Amazon QuickSight
4.5
Snowflake
—
Report Formatting Templates
Amazon QuickSight
5.4
Snowflake
—
Ad-hoc Reporting
Amazon QuickSight
5.7
Snowflake
—
Drill-down analysis
Amazon QuickSight
6.2
Snowflake
—
Formatting capabilities
Amazon QuickSight
5.3
Snowflake
—
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Amazon QuickSight
4.3
Snowflake
—
Report sharing and collaboration
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
Snowflake
—
Report Output and Scheduling
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
Snowflake
—
Publish to Web
Amazon QuickSight
6.5
Snowflake
—
Publish to PDF
Amazon QuickSight
5.9
Snowflake
—
Report Versioning
Amazon QuickSight
4.7
Snowflake
—
Report Delivery Scheduling
Amazon QuickSight
6.1
Snowflake
—
Delivery to Remote Servers
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
Snowflake
—
Data Discovery and Visualization
Amazon QuickSight
5.4
Snowflake
—
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Amazon QuickSight
6.3
Snowflake
—
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Amazon QuickSight
6.7
Snowflake
—
Predictive Analytics
Amazon QuickSight
3.3
Snowflake
—
Access Control and Security
Amazon QuickSight
7.3
Snowflake
—
Multi-User Support (named login)
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
Snowflake
—
Role-Based Security Model
Amazon QuickSight
6.9
Snowflake
—
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Amazon QuickSight
7.2
Snowflake
—
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Amazon QuickSight
8.0
Snowflake
—
Mobile Capabilities
Amazon QuickSight
3.8
Snowflake
—
Responsive Design for Web Access
Amazon QuickSight
4.0
Snowflake
—
Dedicated iOS Application
Amazon QuickSight
3.3
Snowflake
—
Dedicated Android Application
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
Snowflake
—
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Amazon QuickSight
4.3
Snowflake
—
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Amazon QuickSight
5.0
Snowflake
—
REST API
Amazon QuickSight
5.5
Snowflake
—
Javascript API
Amazon QuickSight
5.8
Snowflake
—
iFrames
Amazon QuickSight
5.1
Snowflake
—
Java API
Amazon QuickSight
5.5
Snowflake
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Themeable User Interface (UI)
Amazon QuickSight
4.4
Snowflake
—
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Amazon QuickSight
3.6
Snowflake
—
Pros
Amazon QuickSight
- Lightweight and serverless BI tool that can be used for niche dashboards.
- Its integration into other AWS Services is one of its most appealing features.
- The low monthly cost is another benefit.

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employeesSnowflake
- Resources that scale up and down automatically to ensure that queries run quickly and efficiently without paying for computing power that is not being used
- Much more reliable than our previous software
- No noticable limit to query size
- Runs very quickly
Product Manager
AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Cons
Amazon QuickSight
- One of the primary challenges I've had with Amazon QuickSight so far is that some of the reports I want to build use data from different data sets. Instead of being able to put all of the information I want to see into one report.
- Some of our Amazon QuickSight reports only update every 24 hours. It would be great to see that data in real-time.
- I would remove the various time zones from Amazon QuickSight and only use the time zone we are in.
Marketing Director
LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees
Snowflake
- Very limited amount of tabs - saved queries, which requires us to store the code somewhere else and re-use existing queries.
- Performance can really be a problem if there are many users on the system at the same time.
- SnowFlake support sometimes can be hard to reach.

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Computer Games Company, 51-200 employeesLikelihood to Renew
Amazon QuickSight
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Snowflake
Snowflake 8.0
Based on 1 answer
SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Computer Games Company, 51-200 employeesUsability
Amazon QuickSight
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Snowflake
Snowflake 8.7
Based on 11 answers
Extensive documentation and several tutorial videos are available online which reduces learning and deployment time. User Interface is very intuitive and provide flexibility to create databases, schema, tables and assign permissions in a few clicks (no need to write SQL queries). SQL History helps to track usages and billing dashboard provide credit breakup per warehouse. Create views and write procedures in JavaScript for more complex data transformation requirement

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employeesSupport Rating
Amazon QuickSight
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Snowflake
Snowflake 8.7
Based on 10 answers
Overall, the support from Snowflake has been very good. Since we are one of the major users for Snowflake and have a dedicated tech team to solve all the technical problem on our way. On the side of the technical problem, any sql related questions can be found from everywhere online.

Verified User
Analyst in Corporate
Cosmetics Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Amazon QuickSight
In our case, we are storing our large amount of data in the cloud so using QuickSight adds up to the performance of the reporting. We are using it as a secondary reporting tool so that a business user can generate their own report. We are using Tableau as our primary reporting tool.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Building Materials Company, 501-1000 employeesSnowflake
The average percentage of time that a data warehouse is actually doing something is around 20%. Given this, the price by query estimate becomes an important pricing consideration. For this, Snowflake crucially decouples of storage and compute. With Snowflake you pay for 1) storage space used and 2) amount of time spent querying data. Snowflake also has a notion of a “logical warehouse” which is the “compute” aspect of the database. These warehouses can be scaled up or down to deliver different grades of performance. You can also configure the number of compute nodes to parallelize query execution. These warehouses can be configured to “pause” when you’re not using them for cost efficiency. As a result, you can have a super beefy warehouse for BI queries that’s only running when people are using your BI tools, while your background batch jobs can use cheaper hardware.
Data Engineer
InterfolioInternet, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon QuickSight
No answers on this topic
Snowflake
- Quick installation/setup for a data warehouse solution.
- Make easy to handle/manage the various type of semi-structured data using the native solutions and provided new data modeling concepts such as schema-read data model and schema-write data model.
- Make easy and simplified the workload management using virtual warehouses and materialized views.
Database Engineer/DBA (Cloud and On-Premises)
Capital OneFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Amazon QuickSight
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Amazon QuickSight Editions & Modules
Edition
Authors | $24.001 |
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Readers | $5.001 |
- Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
—Snowflake
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Snowflake Editions & Modules
Edition
US East | $20.001 |
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- Per TB