Amazon QuickSight vs Snowflake

What users are saying about

Score 7.9 out of 10

Based on 38 reviews and ratings

Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 198 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

BI Standard Reporting

8.0

Amazon QuickSight

80%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

8.0

80%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

7.9

79%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

7.2

Amazon QuickSight

72%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 4/4 features

Drill-down analysis

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

6.0

60%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

7.0

70%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

6.9

Amazon QuickSight

69%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 5/5 features

Publish to Web

8.0

80%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Publish to PDF

6.3

63%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report Versioning

6.0

60%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

7.0

70%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

7.0

70%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

5.8

Amazon QuickSight

58%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

6.0

60%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

8.0

80%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

3.5

35%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Access Control and Security

8.0

Amazon QuickSight

80%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 4/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

8.0

80%

5 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

8.0

80%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

3.9

Amazon QuickSight

39%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 3/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

4.0

40%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Mobile Application

3.7

37%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

3.8

38%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

5.9

Amazon QuickSight

59%

Snowflake

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Amazon QuickSight ranks higher in 6/6 features

REST API

6.1

61%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Javascript API

6.6

66%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

iFrames

7.0

70%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Java API

6.1

61%

2 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Themeable User Interface (UI)

7.0

70%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

3.0

30%

3 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Amazon QuickSight is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Snowflake is rated higher in 1 area: Usability

Amazon QuickSight

90%

5 Ratings

8.9

Snowflake

89%

32 Ratings

Amazon QuickSight

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Snowflake

80%

1 Rating

Amazon QuickSight

70%

1 Rating

8.5

Snowflake

85%

13 Ratings

Amazon QuickSight

90%

1 Rating

7.2

Snowflake

72%

12 Ratings

Contract Terms and Pricing Model

Amazon QuickSight

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Snowflake

80%

1 Rating

Pros

Easily to set up for data sources, already supports quite a few of AWS and non-AWS data sources
Cost friendly since users are charged only for basis of usage

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Verified User

Director in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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This is a cloud-based application that provides me a secure platform for the easy sharing of data with my clients.
I feel confident to connect with my numerous business partners just because of its advanced security and effective programming.
Through this tool, I am capable of integrating, analyzing, and the entire data in a precise form and with analytics as well, due to which I always have a transparent idea about the data extraction and its transfer from multiple clouds.

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Darren Mihalic

Business Development Manager

Torqx Capital PartnersVenture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees

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Cons

It is still immature as a cloud-based BI tool.
Its functionality is about 40-50% of its competitor's products.
Application is still a little buggy and non-intuitive at times.

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Vice-President in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Snowflake UI can be clunky and breaks sometimes, which can be annoying
Snowflake has to be paired with the Data Build Tool (DBT) to allow for templating and macro usage. No inbuilt solution.
Snowflake Python connector development doesn't necessarily track popular packages such as Pandas as quickly as Pandas releases
Could do with better machine learning capability over warehouse tables, but I assume this is coming soon

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Verified User

Engineer in Other

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$5 per month

Amazon QuickSight Editions & Modules

Edition

Authors	$24.00¹
Readers	$5.00¹

per month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

—

Snowflake Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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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

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Amazon QuickSight 7.0

Based on 1 answer

It is easy to use and set up no need to put in so much effort. Once build, the dashboard can be used with multiple clients with the same domain. It provides multiple connectivity options which makes it a versatile option for reporting.

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Lakhan Suri

Senior System Engineer

TietoEVRYInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Snowflake 8.5

Based on 13 answers

The interface is similar to other SQL query systems I've used and is fairly easy to use. My only complaint is the syntax issues. Another thing is that the error messages are not always the easiest thing to understand, especially when you incorporate temp tables. Some of that is to be expected with any new database.

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Jake Schlingman

Product Manager

AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon QuickSight 9.0

Based on 1 answer

They provide proper support when needed. They are always ready to provide the box solution and make things easier for users.

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Lakhan Suri

Senior System Engineer

TietoEVRYInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Snowflake 7.2

Based on 12 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.

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Verified User

Analyst in Corporate

Cosmetics Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

All of the other reporting platforms my organization has used previously were within our CRM and not a standalone program. In that we were very limited in being able to slice and dice the data the way that we wanted to

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Megan Sullivan

Marketing Director

LightRx Face & BodyConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best among them for most customers. It's easier to manage, in many cases faster, and in almost all cases it is less expensive because of the ability to automatically resume and suspend depending on usage.

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Brian Bickell

Data Practice Director

InterWorksInformation Services, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Reduce lots of setup and maintenance cost.
Latest technology in market.
Full eco system provided under on roof.
Cost effective.

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Lakhan Suri

Senior System Engineer

TietoEVRYInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Faster data retrieval makes real time analysis possible.
Option to create multiple warehouses enable us to track usages and cost by departments.
Option to scale up/down computational warehouse to support peak hours and month end loads makes Snowflake cost effective.
Zero-copy cloning reduces storage and deployment cost.
Multiple users can access the same amount of data without deadlocks which is a common scenario in relational databases.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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Screenshots

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Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Pros

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Cons

Amazon QuickSight

Snowflake

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Amazon QuickSight Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Snowflake Editions & Modules