Cloudera Data Platform vs Snowflake

Likelihood to Recommend

In the creation of maintenance models Cloudera can excel greatly, because it allows you to create very scalable and applicable processes in different types of technology, either for reporting based purely on data, or to implement its analysis modalities to develop IT projects. In case of requiring detailed review of different phases of IT processes, Cloudera can be useful in security operations that require high expertise in shared data.

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Murray Clear

Independent Contractor Hearing Examiner

LAWYERBESLegal Services, 201-500 employees

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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.

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Rounak Verma

Data Analyst

Raymour and FlaniganRetail, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

Scales
Highly available

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance 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

Constantly changing costs
Log visibility

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 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

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0.04 per CCU (hourly rate)

Cloudera Data Platform Editions & Modules

Edition

CDP Public Cloud - Data Engineering	$0.07¹
CDP Public Cloud - Data Warehouse	$0.054¹
CDP Public Cloud - Operational Database	$0.08¹
CDP Public Cloud - Machine Learning	$0.17¹
CDP Public Cloud - Data Hub	$0.04¹
CDP Public Cloud - Flow Management	$0.15¹
CDP Private Cloud - Plus Edition	$400²
CDP Private Cloud - Base Edition	$10,000.00³

per CCU (hourly rate)
CCU (annual subscription)
node + variable (annual subscription)

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$20 Per TB

Snowflake Editions & Modules

Edition

US East	$20.00¹

Per TB

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Snowflake 8.0

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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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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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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

Cloudera Data Platform 8.0

Based on 2 answers

We have utilized Cloudera support quite frequently and are very satisfied with the capability and responsiveness of that team. Often, the new features delivered with the platform give us an opportunity to mature the way we're doing things, and the support team have been valuable in developing those new patterns.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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Snowflake 7.3

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

IBM's offering of the Cloud Pak for Data has been a moving target and difficult to compare to Cloudera Data Platform. We have implemented our solution on Amazon Web Services, which appears to be supported by IBM at this point, but the migration would be very expensive for us to endeavor.

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 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

Reduced operational costs
Speed to market

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Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 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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