Snowflake vs. Teradata Vantage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Snowflake
Score 8.9 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
Teradata Vantage
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Teradata Vantage is presented as a modern analytics cloud platform that unifies everything—data lakes, data warehouses, analytics, and new data sources and types. Supports hybrid multi-cloud environments and priced for flexibility, Vantage delivers unlimited intelligence to build the future of business. Users can deploy Vantage on public clouds (such as AWS, Azure, and GCP), hybrid multi-cloud environments, on-premises with Teradata IntelliFlex, or on commodity hardware with VMware.
$4,800
per month
Pricing
SnowflakeTeradata Vantage
Editions & Modules
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Teradata VantageCloud Lake
from $4800
per month
Teradata VantageCloud Enterprise
from $9000
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SnowflakeTeradata Vantage
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
SnowflakeTeradata Vantage
Considered Both Products
Snowflake
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake stacks up well against many of the other players in the space. We used Teradata before and it seems to perform better.
Chose Snowflake
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 …
Teradata Vantage
Chose Teradata Vantage
At this time because it is a system that we are already using and it responds to all our needs.
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SnowflakeTeradata Vantage
Small Businesses
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.7 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Db2
Db2
Score 8.7 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Db2
Db2
Score 8.7 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
SnowflakeTeradata Vantage
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(43 ratings)
9.2
(46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(19 ratings)
7.7
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
9.9
(8 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SnowflakeTeradata Vantage
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Teradata
TV is well suited for high speed, which is a great for large tables. The workload functionality is very good when in Viewpoint. The BAR functionality could use a little work. QueryGrid is very useful as well. The client handlers are still a work in progress, as I keep hearing that they continue to fail. There are also many restarts on the systems as well.
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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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Teradata
  • ETL (Extract - Transfor - Load)
  • NOS to send data from Teradata Vantage to S3 and from S3 to Teradata Vantage
  • Teradata GeoSpacial feature
  • Bulk reading and writing in huge tables
  • MPP capacity already mature
  • Temporal Capacity more mature that other solutions
  • TASM
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Cons
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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Teradata
  • Teradata is an excellent option but only for a massive amount of data warehousing or analysis. If your data is not that big then it could be a misfit for your company and cost you a lot. The cost associated is quite extensive as compared to some other alternative RDBMS systems available in the market.
  • Migration of data from Teradata to some other RDBMS systems is quite painful as the transition is not that smooth and you need to follow many steps and even if one of them fails. You need to start from the beginning almost.
  • Last but not least the UI is pretty outdated and needs a revamp. Though it is simple, it needs to be presented in a much better way and more advanced options need to bee presented on the front page itself.
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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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Teradata
Teradata is a mature RDBMS system that expands its functionality towards the current cloud capabilities like object storage and flexible compute scale.
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Usability
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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Teradata
The use of
Teradata Vantage in the organization is intensive since it not only supports the
semantic layer to perform the organization's BI (mainly given by management
reports and dashboards) but is also used to provide customer information to
transactional systems. that are processed in the DW useful for the sales and customer
experience areas
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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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Teradata
We have meetings at the beginning with the technical team to explain our requirements to them and they were really putting in a lot of effort to come up with a solution which will address all our needs. They implemented the software and also trained a few of our resources on the same too. We can get in touch with them now as well whenever we run into a roadblock but it's very less now.
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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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Teradata
Teradata is way ahead of its competitor because of its unique features of ensuring data privacy and data never gets corrupted even in worst case scenario. In most cases, the data corruption is a major issue if left unused and it leads to important data being wiped off which in ideal case should be stored for 3 years
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Return on Investment
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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Teradata
  • Saving time and cost through its stable integration tools which helps import and export a huge amount of different data.
  • Providing analytics for the different data is easy and quick.
  • Securing all the data processes across the entire company.
  • Great Cloud solution for effective data quality management.
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Teradata Vantage Screenshots

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