Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub vs Snowflake

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudera Enterprise offers the right mix of components to build a robust data platform which supports both reporting and analytics which can deal with all sorts of data.

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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Snowflake is great when you need to store large amounts of data while retaining the ability to query that data quickly. It is very reliable and allows for auto-scaling on large queries meaning that you're only paying for the power you actually use. It's taken queries that took 20+ minutes to run on redshift down to 2 minutes on Snowflake.

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Jake Schlingman

Product Manager

AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

One of the oldest distributors of enterprise standard Hadoop.
Distribution is based on open source Hadoop even though customizations are done on top of that.
Faster updates and bug fixes to the products as they have Apache committers.
Central configuration and control of your Hadoop platform (but still needs improvements).

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Impressive data retrieval and data compression ratio.
Semi-structured data (JSON, XML) can be loaded as is and retrieved in a tabular structure on the fly using the flatten function.
Zero-copy cloning is an excellent feature which saves hours to refresh latest data in development instance.
Extensive usages documentation with examples makes development easy.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

As any new technology, difficult to hire resources who know the solution specially in APJC to help with Lab and PoC activities.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services

Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Very limited amount of tabs - saved queries, which requires us to store the code somewhere else and re-use existing queries.
Performance can really be a problem if there are many users on the system at the same time.
SnowFlake support sometimes can be hard to reach.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 8.2

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Cloudera is expanding with varied range of products and it looks to me as a challenging company and very competitive in the Big Data market. I would recommend to using the latest stable version as new features are added with each version and different bugs are fixed. As Big data is a constantly evolving so trying new Cloudera products helps businesses to stay competitive in the market domain as every big organization is now trying to move to Big Data.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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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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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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Snowflake 8.7

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The web front end is OK, but they could improve the product with a front end GUI. We have connected DBEAVER to snowflake with an ODBC driver, but the queries are a lot slower from DBEAVER, compared to the web front end. SSIS also has an ODBC connection, but it is also a slower to pull data from snowflake. Overall the usability is good.

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Wicks Justin

Senior Data Engineer

Ignition GroupTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

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Snowflake 8.5

Based on 10 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

I have not evaluated any similar products, and in fact, don't know of any direct competitor. Amazon's Redshift has a similar spirit.

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Lois Garcia, GSEC

Senior System Administrator

TuneInInternet, 51-200 employees

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The average percentage of time that a data warehouse is actually doing something is around 20%. Given this, the price by query estimate becomes an important pricing consideration. For this, Snowflake crucially decouples of storage and compute. With Snowflake you pay for 1) storage space used and 2) amount of time spent querying data. Snowflake also has a notion of a “logical warehouse” which is the “compute” aspect of the database. These warehouses can be scaled up or down to deliver different grades of performance. You can also configure the number of compute nodes to parallelize query execution. These warehouses can be configured to “pause” when you’re not using them for cost efficiency. As a result, you can have a super beefy warehouse for BI queries that’s only running when people are using your BI tools, while your background batch jobs can use cheaper hardware.

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Andrew Goss

Data Engineer

InterfolioInternet, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

The tools in Cloudera Enterprise have enabled us to perform seamless upgrades and monitor the clusters
Investing in the support enables us to engage with Cloudera to get access to required patches and backports in case of bugs which helps with wider adoption of open source software in the enterprise.
Voice of the customer enabled us to put forth requests for new features across various components.

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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Quick installation/setup for a data warehouse solution.
Make easy to handle/manage the various type of semi-structured data using the native solutions and provided new data modeling concepts such as schema-read data model and schema-write data model.
Make easy and simplified the workload management using virtual warehouses and materialized views.

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Jacob Biguvu

Database Engineer/DBA (Cloud and On-Premises)

Capital OneFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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