SAP Data Warehouse Cloud vs Snowflake | TrustRadius

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 14 reviews and ratings

Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 81 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Snowflake

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

Pros

Smart cloud solution of data optimization and management.
Accurate analytic reports of the data and end user experiences.
Security and user base access authentication.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Resources that scale up and down automatically to ensure that queries run quickly and efficiently without paying for computing power that is not being used
Much more reliable than our previous software
No noticable limit to query size
Runs very quickly

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Jake Schlingman

Product Manager

AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Integration with other warehouse tools will be quite difficult.
Consumes more time to process when data volume increases.
Needed improvement in data masking features.

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Prabhu Sundararaj

Associate - Project

CognizantInformation Technology & Services, 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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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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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

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 6.4

Based on 1 answer

It has accelerated analytics and reduced resource allocation time. Security is good and monitoring is efficient as well.

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Employee in Information Technology

Food & Beverages Company, 10,001+ employees

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Snowflake 8.7

Based on 11 answers

Extensive documentation and several tutorial videos are available online which reduces learning and deployment time. User Interface is very intuitive and provide flexibility to create databases, schema, tables and assign permissions in a few clicks (no need to write SQL queries). SQL History helps to track usages and billing dashboard provide credit breakup per warehouse. Create views and write procedures in JavaScript for more complex data transformation requirement

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud 7.5

Based on 3 answers

As a SAP product, you will receive excellent support from SAP.

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Manager in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Snowflake 8.6

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

The last few years have been about moving most of our infra to the cloud. Our ERP, HR, Finance, Fleet, Analytics, and Procurement are now in the cloud.

Data Warehouse was next in line to move to the cloud.
SAP Data Warehouse features a modern user interface with easy to generate graphical data models, and generated views can be easily integrated into a storyboard.
Similar to other SAP Cloud offerings, new features will be added automatically.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ 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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Data Engineer

InterfolioInternet, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Highly positive ROI, as we get scalable and detailed data analytics for smooth IT operations.
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud also provides reliable backup solutions.

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Shahid Siddique

Engineering Executive

UfoneTelecommunications, 10,001+ 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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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

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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

Rating Summary

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Snowflake

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Snowflake

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Snowflake

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Snowflake

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