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Attribute Ratings
- Azure Blob Storage is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
- Snowflake is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
Azure Blob Storage
88%
9 Ratings

8.9
Snowflake
89%
32 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
Azure Blob Storage
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Snowflake
80%
1 Rating
Usability
Azure Blob Storage
N/A
0 Ratings

8.5
Snowflake
85%
13 Ratings
Support Rating
9.0
Azure Blob Storage
90%
6 Ratings

7.2
Snowflake
72%
12 Ratings
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Azure Blob Storage
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Snowflake
80%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage is well suited for cases where you are working with different data formats and looking for cost-effective storage solutions based on access frequency. Another area of strength is the encryption of data at rest, and encryption can be managed on your own. However, it may not be appropriate for transferring large data very fast.

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employeesSnowflake
For an organization that has small, medium, or large data collection, Snowflake provides the best infrastructure to store, manage, utilize and analyze the data. Especially for companies that are growing at a really fast pace, it helps you not only with warehouse capabilities but also its connection with several BI tools give you the flexibility and option to connect and analyze the data [in] real time.
Data Analyst
Raymour and FlaniganRetail, 5001-10,000 employees
Pros
Azure Blob Storage
- Ease of use both through Azure Portal as well as API.
- Cost-effective solution for storing a large amount of data compared to other storage solutions.
- Scalability, Security, and Performance are the other key aspects of Azure Blob Storage that are easily manageable through Admin Console.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employeesSnowflake
- 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.
Business Development Manager
Torqx Capital PartnersVenture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees
Cons
Azure Blob Storage
- Unstructured data makes it harder to conceptualize what we have but with partners like Panzura that has been a non-issue for us.
- Not always easy to understand the different models or tiers you can pick from when purchasing.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employeesSnowflake
- 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

Verified User
Engineer in Other
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employeesPricing Details
Azure Blob Storage
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,081 per GB/per month
Azure Blob Storage Editions & Modules
Edition
Block Blobs | $0.00811 |
---|---|
Azure Data Lake Storage | $0.00811 |
Managed Discs | $1.542 |
Files | $0.0583 |
- per GB/per month
- per month
- per GB/per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Snowflake
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Snowflake Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Azure Blob Storage
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
Azure Blob Storage
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Snowflake
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.
Product Manager
AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Support Rating
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage 9.0
Based on 6 answers
Documentation sometimes appears to be out of date or not fully documented properly with new releases. It is like documentation comes out for a specific version and is quickly out of date. Another issue is documentation is scarce on new releases and only seems to get properly updated (and sometimes is still wrong) once enough people hit the forums to complain.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesSnowflake
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.

Verified User
Analyst in Corporate
Cosmetics Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Azure Blob Storage
We are affiliated with Azure so Azure Storage is our only choice but I have worked with other storage resources of Azure like Azure Data Lake Storage. Both are good and robust storage resource but they differ in the application that they do best

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSnowflake
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.
Data Practice Director
InterWorksInformation Services, 201-500 employees
Return on Investment
Azure Blob Storage
- Allowed us to store files more cheaply than on-prem.
- Allowed us to store files securely.
- Allowed us to transport files with HTTPS easily.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employeesSnowflake
- 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.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees