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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Data Exchange

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AAWS Data Exchange is an integration for data service, from which subscribers can easily browse the AWS Data Exchange catalog to find relevant and up-to-date commercial data products covering a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, life sciences, geospatial, consumer, media & entertainment, and more.N/A

    IBM InfoSphere Information Server

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.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
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information ServerSnowflake
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Snowflake Computing
    Chose Snowflake
    - Cost was the main aspect on the decision.
    - Performance was in par or better compared to other tools in the market.
    - Snowflake in my opinion stacks better than other tools I have used in the past.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information ServerSnowflake
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Snowflake
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.7
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Snowflake
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    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources7.02 Ratings9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL9.01 Ratings7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Snowflake
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.01 Ratings8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management9.01 Ratings7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow7.01 Ratings8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration9.01 Ratings8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging7.01 Ratings7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Snowflake
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Snowflake
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    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools7.01 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings9.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of AWS Data Exchange and IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Snowflake
    Feature
    AWS Data Exchange
    -
    Ratings
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations00 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations00 Ratings9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information ServerSnowflake
    Small Businesses
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
    Skyvia
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM InfoSphere Information Server
    Score10 out of 10
    Informatica PowerCenter (legacy)
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    SolarWinds Task Factory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information ServerSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    -
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    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    -
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    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS Data ExchangeIBM InfoSphere Information ServerSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    AWS Data Exchange fits best for scenarios where you have datasets that you would like to sell and you want to deliver it to anyone who would like to purchase it. It really beats having to set up downloads via your own website or portal. However, it can get complicated to manage if you're trying to deliver a dataset a client has already paid for.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    Information Server is extremely useful to replace manual developments that require a lot of coding effort. It significantly increases the productivity of the initial development and the future maintenance of the processes since it has a visual development environment with self-documentation.
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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
    • Simplified data delivery
    • Ability to create any amount of data products
    • Ability to integrate payment plans with data products
    • Tracking data downloads and users
    • Integration with other AWS data services
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • IIS best for ETL ,not ELT , and many and diffrent source systems.
    • It also can process big data , unstuctured data
    • It is not only DWH , you can use infosphere for analys and see the bigger architecture of your OLTP systems
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Integration with more data sources
    • Ability to deliver data to clients without AWS accounts
    • Inclusion of direct data downloads in addition to asynchronous methods
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • I would be nice to have a new web development environment for DataStage.
    • Connectivity Packs such as Pack for SAP Application are a little pricey.
    • It is confusing for new developers the possibility of developing jobs using different execution engines such as Parallel or Server.
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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
    There have been a lot of problems with ADX. First, the entire system is incredibly clunky from beginning to end.First, by AWS's own admission they're missing a lot of "tablestakes functionality" like the ability to see who is coming to your pages, more flexibility to edit and update your listings, the ability to create a storefront or catalog that actually tries to sell your products. All-in-all you're flying completely blind with AWS. In our convos with other sellers we strongly believe very little organic traffic is flowing through the AWS exchange. For the headache, it's not worth the time or the effort. It's very difficult to market or sell your products.We've also had a number of simple UX bugs where they just don't accurately reflect the attributes of your product. For instance for an S3 bucket they had "+metered costs" displayed to one of our buyers in the price. This of course caused a lot of confusion. They also misrepresented the historical revisions that were available in our product sets because of another UX bug. It's difficult to know what other things in the UX are also broken and incongruent.We also did have a purchase, but the seller is completely at their whim at providing you fake emails, fake company names, fake use cases because AWS hasn't thought through simple workflows like "why even have subscription confirmation if I can fake literally everything about a subscription request." So as a result we're now in an endless, timewasting, unhelpful thread with AWS support trying to get payment. They're confused of what to do and we feel completely lost.Lastly, the AWS team has been abysmal in addressing our concerns. Conversations with them result in a laundry list of excuses of why simple functionalities are so hard (including just having accurate documentation). It was a very frustrating and unproductive call. Our objective of our call was to help us see that ADX is a well-resourced and well-visioned product. Ultimately they couldn't clearly articulate who they built the exchange for both on the seller side and the buyer side.Don't waste your time. This is at best a very foggy experiment. Look at other sellers, they have a lot of free pages to try to get attention, but then have smart tactics to divert transactions away from the ADX. Ultimately, smart move. Why give 8-10% of your cut to a product that is basically bare-bones infrastructure.
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    IBM
    • Scale of implementation
    • IBM techsupport
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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
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS
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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
    • Reduced time to publish datasets for sale by more than 80%
    • Increased net profit from dataset sales by ~10%
    • Reduced data delivery time to clients by 15%
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Productivity of the development of integration processes.
    • Better documentation and governance.
    • Reduce training costs of various technologies.
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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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