Oracle Warehouse Builder vs. Snowflake

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Warehouse Builder
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is a data-warehousing centered data integration solution, from Oracle. It offers basic ETL functionality for building a simple data warehouse, as well as advanced ETL functionality supporting enterprise data integration projects, along with connectivity for Oracle and SAP applications.N/A
Snowflake
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
The 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
Oracle Warehouse BuilderSnowflake
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle Warehouse BuilderSnowflake
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Oracle Warehouse BuilderSnowflake
Features
Oracle Warehouse BuilderSnowflake
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Warehouse Builder
9.5
5 Ratings
14% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Connect to traditional data sources10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Warehouse Builder
10.0
5 Ratings
20% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Simple transformations10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Complex transformations10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Warehouse Builder
8.2
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Data model creation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Metadata management6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing and debugging7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Warehouse Builder
8.0
3 Ratings
0% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Integration with data quality tools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle Warehouse BuilderSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(8 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle Warehouse BuilderSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
The best place for Oracle Warehouse Builder is at the business IT level. It's not suited for business-level users. They are easy confused. One way to reduce the confusion for the developers is to set up the workspaces based on the requirements that are discovered in design sessions. Once this is complete, the implementation of Oracle Warehouse Builder can take flight and be successful.
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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
Oracle
  • Easy transformation.
  • Easy implementation from Oracle to Oracle systems.
  • Ease of usage and easy to learn.
  • Starting component of metadata management.
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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
Oracle
  • What I noticed is that sometimes OWB doesn't generate the best SQL in the package especially when there are a high number of source tables in the ETL. It would be nice if ETL developers were allowed to update the generated packages in the database directly.
  • Another thing - moving OWB ETLs from one database to another one could be easier - for example it would be nice to just copy the generated packages from one database to the other one without doing the deployment of these ETLs through OWB.
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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
Oracle
No answers on this topic
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
Oracle
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
Oracle
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
Oracle
Ab>initio, IBM Datastage 8.0
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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
Oracle
  • It improved understanding of ETL functions. Data is consistent. The speed is pretty good.
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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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