Snowflake vs. Talend Data Integration

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Snowflake
Score 9.1 out of 10
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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
Talend Data Integration
Score 8.2 out of 10
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The Talend Integration Suite, from Talend, is a set of tools for data integration.N/A
Pricing
SnowflakeTalend Data Integration
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SnowflakeTalend Data Integration
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SnowflakeTalend Data Integration
Considered Both Products
Snowflake
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake offers great customer support when compared to most other Software as a Service data warehouses. Moreover, having a data warehouse built entirely on the cloud makes it easier for teams working across different geographical locations to integrate their work. …
Chose Snowflake
  • Low-cost, Scalable cloud storage
  • Elastic compute on demand
  • Optimized for semi-structured and structured data
Talend Data Integration

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SnowflakeTalend Data Integration
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
8.2
9 Ratings
2% below category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings7.68 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Snowflake
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Ratings
Talend Data Integration
8.9
9 Ratings
6% above category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
7.9
9 Ratings
3% below category average
Data model creation00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.87 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings5.48 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
7.8
8 Ratings
6% below category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.68 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
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User Ratings
SnowflakeTalend Data Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(37 ratings)
8.3
(18 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(13 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(8 ratings)
6.6
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SnowflakeTalend Data Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Snowflake Computing
I am over our HR data, and we use Workday for our HR management system. I have a script in place that runs reports on Workday and saves the results as CSVs. I can then use stages in Snowflake to insert these CSVs into Snowflake, then I can insert or truncate and replace these staged tables into a final schema. Then once these are in a schema I can reference them and build out my data models. In addition to ingesting CSVs, Snowflake has the ability to write a CSV file to our Amazon S3 bucket. Ingesting these CSVs, transforming the data, then delivering it to a destination would've involved so much more coding than my current process if we were on any other platform.
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Qlik
The same way you design data integration job can be used to design services. It is easy to enhance by custom components and can adapt to all requirements. Talend Data Integration connects to [a] multitude of data sources and streaming service. Very easy interface to design complex applications without spending much time on coding. Easy to learn and master. Talend constantly strives to better itself by adding more features and functionalities.
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Pros
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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Qlik
  • We used Talend to ETLing the data from myriad sources such Oracle Database, Clarify, Salesforce, Sugar CRM, SQL DB, MQ, Stibo Step, FTP, Netezza, and Files.
  • We leverage Talend transformation capabilities for stitching the data , unions and join
  • We successfully created the final unified set that can be used by business
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Cons
Snowflake Computing
  • This tool is very much technical and proper knowledge is required, so mostly you have to hire an IT team.
  • I wish if various videos could be available for basic quires like its initiation, then I think it would act as a guideline and would help the beginners a lot.
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Qlik
  • Pricing for sure can be the area for improvement.
  • Real time processing is slow as compared to other tools like Abinitio.
  • While developing batches, it crashes a lot. It may be the issue with me, but I wanted to highlight it.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Qlik
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Usability
Snowflake Computing
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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Qlik
We use Talend Data Integration day in and day out. It is the best and easiest tool to jump on to and use. We can build a basic integration super-fast. We could build basic integrations as fast as within the hour. It is also easy to build transformations and use Java to perform some operations.
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Support Rating
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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Qlik
Good support, specially when it relates to PROD environment. The support team has access to the product development team. Things are internally escalated to development team if there is a bug encountered. This helps the customer to get quick fix or patch designed for problem exceptions. I have also seen support showing their willingness to help develop custom connector for a newly available cloud based big data solution
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Alternatives Considered
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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Qlik
In comparison with the other ETLs I used, Talend is more flexible than Data Services (where you cannot create complex commands). It is similar to Datastage speaking about commands and interfaces. It is more user-friendly than ODI, which has a metadata point of view on its own, while Talend is more classic. It has both on-prem and cloud approaches, while Matillion is only cloud-based.
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Return on Investment
Snowflake Computing
  • Positive impact: we use Snowflake to track our subscription and payment charges, which we use for internal and investor reporting
  • Positive impact: 3 times faster query speed compared to Treasure Data means that answers to stakeholders can be delivered quicker by analysts
  • Positive impact: recommender systems now source their data from Snowflake rather than Spark clusters, improving development speed, and no longer require maintainence of Spark clusters.
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Qlik
  • It’s only been a positive RoI with Talend given we’ve interfaced large datasets between critical on-Prem and cloud-native apps to efficiently run our business operations.
  • 40K+ plots data, covering 1K+ crop varieties.
  • 3K+ Customer & their credit data, 3K+ product inventory & pricing.
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