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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon RDS

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.N/A

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe 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 RDSSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
    $0.24 ($0.48)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for MariaDB
    $0.25 ($0.50)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for MySQL
    $0.29 ($0.58)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for Oracle
    $0.482 ($0.964)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for SQL Server
    $1.02 ($1.52)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon RDSSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon RDSSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon RDS
    Installing, configuring, and managing Oracle Database can be challenging, especially for people who are new to Oracle products. Longer learning curves and higher operational overhead can be caused by this complexity. Amazon Relational Database Service is easy to understand and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon RDS
    Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is an excellent option for those using AWS already, and provides a scalable, performant, database engine. Unlike Azure SQL Server it has a limit on the number of databases you can hold. However, if you're already in the AWS ecosystem it …
    Incentivized
    Snowflake Computing
    Chose Snowflake
    Instant provisioning of computing resources and data sharing is something we have not seen with any other vendor. Being HIPAA compliant at the time of evaluation was a must for us. Other vendors were late on this. Onboarding on support during implementation was also excellent.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    102 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    98 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    102 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    30 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    96 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon RDSSnowflake
    Small Businesses
    Microsoft Access
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon RDSSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (131 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (13 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon RDSSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If your application needs a relational data store and uses other AWS services, AWS RDS is a no-brainer. It offers all the traditional database features, makes it a snap to set up, creates cross-region replication, has advanced security, built-in monitoring, and much more at a very good price. You can also set up streaming to a data lake using various other AWS services on your RDS.
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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
    • Automated Database Management: We use it for streamlining routine tasks like software patching and database backups.
    • Scalability on Demand: we use it to handle traffic spikes, scaling both vertically and horizontally.
    • Database Engine Compatibility: It works amazingly with multiple database engines used by different departments within our organization including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.
    • Monitoring: It covers our extensive monitoring and logging, and also has great compatibility with Amazon CloudWatch
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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 a little difficult to configure and connect to an RDS instance. The integration with ECS can be made more seamless.
    • Exploring features within RDS is not very easy and intuitive. Either a human friendly documentation should be added or the User Interface be made intuitive so that people can explore and find features on their own.
    • There should be tools to analyze cost and minimize it according to the usage.
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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
    We do renew our use of Amazon Relational Database Service. We don't have any problems faced with RDS in place. RDS has taken away lot of overhead of hosting database, managing the database and keeping a team just to manage database. Even the backup, security and recovery another overhead that has been taken away by RDS. So, we will keep on using RDS.
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    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
    I've been using AWS Relational Database Services in several projects in different environments and from the AWS products, maybe this one together to EC2 are my favourite. They deliver what they promise. Reliable, fast, easy and with a fair price (in comparison to commercial products which have obscure license agreements).
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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
    I have only had good experiences in working with AWS support. I will admit that my experience comes from the benefit of having a premium tier of support but even working with free-tier accounts I have not had problems getting help with AWS products when needed. And most often, the docs do a pretty good job of explaining how to operate a service so a quick spin through the docs has been useful in solving problems.
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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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    Online Training
    Amazon AWS
    the online training & digital content available on the web from AWS was having sufficient information to deploy and run the service
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    Snowflake Computing
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) stands out among similar products due to its seamless integration with other AWS services, automated backups, and multi-AZ deployments for high availability. Its support for various database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, provides flexibility. Additionally, RDS offers managed security features, including encryption and IAM integration, enhancing data protection. The pay-as-you-go pricing model makes it cost-effective. Overall, Amazon RDS excels in ease of use, scalability, and a comprehensive feature set, making it a top choice for organizations seeking a reliable and scalable managed relational database service in the cloud.
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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
    • The overall cost increases, but we spect this and we can mitigate other risks.
    • Is easy to work from the cloud. Is reliable, but we keep our local solution as well where RDS works quite good.
    • RDS allow us to focurs on owr objetives instead of the other matters regarding databases.
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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

    Amazon RDS Screenshots

    Screenshot of A look inside the RDS console.

    Snowflake Screenshots

    Screenshot of Snowflake Installation