Amazon QuickSight vs. Snowflake

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon QuickSight
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$24
per month per user
Snowflake
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
Pricing
Amazon QuickSightSnowflake
Editions & Modules
Reader
$3
per month per user
Author
$24
per month per user
Reader Pro
$24
per month per user
Author Pro
$50
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon QuickSightSnowflake
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsProspective buyers can also purchase a set number of sessions or questions in lieu of a monthly subscription.
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Community Pulse
Amazon QuickSightSnowflake
Features
Amazon QuickSightSnowflake
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
20% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
22% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
8.4
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
23% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
6 Ratings
16% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
4 Ratings
67% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application3.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile3.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Amazon QuickSight
6.0
3 Ratings
25% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
REST API6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API6.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon QuickSightSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.9
(43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.3
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(8 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon QuickSightSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Amazon Quicksight is a truly cloud-based solution so it works perfectly fine and saves a lot of expense in terms of hardware and maintenance. We can maintain it by ourselves by giving commands on UI. If you have connectivity issues then it can cause headaches because it's a cloud platform and it's a bit costly as compared to other services
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Snowflake Computing
Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • 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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Snowflake Computing
  • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
  • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
  • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
  • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
  • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • 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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Snowflake Computing
  • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
  • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Snowflake Computing
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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Usability
Amazon AWS
It was helping us a lot as per our business needs. Reporting is way easy with QuickSight that helps us to understand the performance of campaigns effectively and so does the performance of sales individual. We can analyze the data and create a new strategies effectively. Setup and maintenance was way easy
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Snowflake Computing
Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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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Snowflake Computing
We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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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Snowflake Computing
I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Cost Effective
  • Easy setup and maintenance
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Snowflake Computing
  • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
  • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
  • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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ScreenShots

Snowflake Screenshots

Screenshot of Snowflake Installation