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Amazon Redshift vs SnapLogic comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.0
Some entities quickly achieved cost savings and ROI, while others face challenges with optimization and evaluating benefits.
Sentiment score
6.9
SnapLogic increases ROI by automating data processes, reducing manual labor and errors, while enabling non-coders to manage integrations.
We earned back our investment in Amazon Redshift within the first year.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
SnapLogic is really helpful and processes in very little time, so it doesn't take much time compared to any legacy tool.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
The reports and pipelines run, leading to cost savings that reduce manual effort and save 50,000 to 150,000 USD annually.
Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
It improved our productivity by fifteen percent and shifted work from IT to business users.
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon Redshift support is efficient yet costly, praised for documentation, but phone contact and complex issue resolution face delays.
Sentiment score
6.8
SnapLogic's customer service is generally positive with quick resolutions, though users report occasional delays and mixed depth in support.
Whenever we need support, if there is an issue accessing stored data due to regional data center problems, the Amazon team is very helpful and provides optimal solutions quickly.
Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati
Documentation that allows anyone with prior knowledge of Redshift or SQL to resolve technical issues.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It's costly when you enable support.
Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA
The responsiveness, technical expertise, knowledge base and documentation, support channels, and continuous improvement were impeccable.
Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The technical support from SnapLogic is excellent, and I would give it a complete ten.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Some SMEs are allotted for the organization, so in case of any issue, we have their email IDs to contact them for support, including SMEs and community.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon Redshift is highly scalable with flexible cluster adjustments, despite some challenges at larger scales and heavy loads.
Sentiment score
7.4
SnapLogic offers scalable solutions for diverse business needs, effectively handling workloads and integrations in cloud environments despite configuration challenges.
The scalability part needs improvement as the sizing requires trial and error.
Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
We have successfully increased our storage space, which was a smooth process without server crashes before or after scaling.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
After implementing SnapLogic, pipelines that processed one to two million records per week can now handle five to 10 million records without additional infrastructure.
Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
SnapLogic is very scalable, and it can be adjusted based on our requirements, considering the organization type and the data it produces.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
SnapLogic is easily scalable.
Product Developer at Cognizant
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Opinions on Amazon Redshift's stability vary, with some praising reliability and others noting issues in large clusters or maintenance.
Sentiment score
7.7
SnapLogic is stable and reliable with occasional update issues, learning curves, and mixed performance reviews compared to competitors.
Amazon Redshift is a stable product, and I would rate it nine or ten out of ten for stability.
Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the stability of SnapLogic as nearly ten out of ten.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
But recently, in a year, I haven't found many performance issues in SnapLogic.
Technical Specialist App Development at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Redshift users face challenges with performance, integration, cost, and features, preferring improved solutions like Snowflake's offerings.
SnapLogic should enhance integration options, error handling, monitoring, data support, and real-time processing with advanced features like AI.
They should bring the entire ETL data management process into Amazon Redshift.
Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
Integration with AI could be a good improvement.
Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati
Integration with AI features could elevate its capabilities and popularity.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We require a data pipeline that can be read without latency and without any delay.
Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Having more granular control and deeper insights into execution performance would really help.
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
If the AI capabilities and integrations were more intuitive and easy to learn for new users, it would be greatly beneficial.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Redshift offers mid-to-high pricing, seen as reasonable due to its scalability and potential cost-effectiveness compared to competitors.
SnapLogic offers flexible subscription pricing, valued for ease in integrations despite high initial costs, especially with new AI features.
The cost of technical support is high.
Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA
It's a pretty good price and reasonable for the product quality.
Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
The pricing of Amazon Redshift is expensive.
Co-Founder, Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
In terms of setup cost, it is relatively low compared to traditional on-premises tools.
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
There would be only one point of improvement if the price could be lower.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
SnapLogic is positioned at around seven or eight out of ten in terms of pricing.
Senior Data Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Redshift offers scalability, fast queries, AWS integration, flexibility, security, cost-effectiveness, easy setup, and compatibility for complex data management.
SnapLogic offers a user-friendly interface for quick, low-code integration, enhancing productivity with seamless data workflows and scalability.
Amazon Redshift's performance optimization and scalability are quite helpful, providing functionalities such as scaling up and down.
Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is also a strong point; I can scale it however I want without any limitations.
Co-Founder, Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
The specific features of Amazon Redshift that are beneficial for handling large data sets include fast retrieval due to cloud services and scalability, which allows us to retrieve data quickly.
Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati
I also like the whole child-parent pipeline feature; it allows me to break up a process into smaller pieces and then have one big pipeline that controls these smaller pipelines.
Head of Data Practice at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
SnapLogic provides inbuilt Snaplets, such as creating and closing an audit ID, removing duplicates, joining tables, writing to Oracle, files, XML, SF, SMTP connections, and more.
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
SnapLogic excels in data transformations, monitoring, and observability, providing scalability controls for the pipelines.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (6th), Cloud Data Warehouse (6th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (8th)
SnapLogic
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (11th), Process Automation (10th), API Management (12th), Cloud Data Integration (8th), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amazon Redshift and SnapLogic aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon Redshift is designed for Cloud Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 7.0%, down 7.4% compared to last year.
SnapLogic, on the other hand, focuses on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), holds 3.8% mindshare, down 4.3% since last year.
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Redshift7.0%
Snowflake14.9%
Databricks10.2%
Other67.9%
Cloud Data Warehouse
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SnapLogic3.8%
Boomi iPaaS7.2%
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform7.0%
Other82.0%
Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
 

Q&A Highlights

Jul 16, 2017
 

Featured Reviews

Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Optimized restaurant analytics has driven faster insights and streamlined daily reporting
Amazon Redshift offers massive parallel processing capability, allowing it to handle millions of records, along with integration with other AWS features such as S3 and QuickSight. The column-level storage supports high performance and easy data retrieval compared to other tools. The integration with S3 has helped my team immensely since S3 is our starting source, and the direct integration with Amazon Redshift simplifies the transformation and loading process. Columnar storage has benefited our performance significantly, allowing us to extract specific rows from tables with years of data much faster than other tools with row-level storage. Amazon Redshift has positively impacted our organization by significantly improving query performance and speed. Features such as easy integration with S3 allow us to process millions of records efficiently, ultimately saving us nearly one hour per day for our project.
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Product Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Automation has transformed daily operations and now delivers faster, more accurate data flows
The best features in SnapLogic are the drag-and-drop interface which makes it easy to build data and application flows. No heavy coding is required, making it ideal for both technical and non-technical users. SnapLogic also offers pre-built snaps, real-time and batch processing, API management and integration, cloud and hybrid support, dashboarding and monitoring, error handling and retry mechanisms, scalability, security and governance, and transformation capabilities with built-in functions to clean and transform data, expressions, aggregations, and mappings. SnapLogic offers auto-mapping and smart schema detection as additional features. SnapLogic can detect schemas automatically, which helps when sources evolve or change, and this matters because there is less manual mapping work.
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Answers from the Community

Jul 16, 2017
Jul 16, 2017
S3 copy is the best solution to load data into Redshift. I have used Informatica to move data from On premise to S3 and used S3 Copy to load Redshift.
2 out of 14 answers
it_user130794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 13, 2017
Matillion or SAP BODS can be used as etl.
Jul 13, 2017
Informatica is good to go with Redshit, however any open source ETL is good enough. Thanks
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Construction Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?
My experience with pricing and setup cost is satisfactory, as we have been loyal clients of Amazon since the beginning of our organization. However, I am not aware of the exact costs associated wit...
What needs improvement with Amazon Redshift?
Amazon Redshift could improve by enhancing its UI to be more user-friendly for non-technical users and by offering better cost management, as similar tools tend to be less expensive. Additionally, ...
What needs improvement with SnapLogic?
The learning curve for advanced use cases with SnapLogic could be improved. While basic pipelines are easy, more complex transformations and debugging can still be a bit challenging. Another improv...
What is your primary use case for SnapLogic?
Our main use case for SnapLogic is building and managing data integration pipelines between different systems, especially for automating API-based workflows. It helps streamline data movement, tran...
What advice do you have for others considering SnapLogic?
A person with minimal knowledge on ETL can easily go through SnapLogic and understand what each Snap does, what the function of each Snap is, and then simply drag and drop and make the connections ...
 

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