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CData AWS Glue Data Connectors vs Snowflake comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

CData AWS Glue Data Connectors
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (133rd)
Snowflake
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (1st), Cloud Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (1st), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (4th), AI Software Development (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

CData AWS Glue Data Connectors and Snowflake aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is designed for AWS Marketplace and holds a mindshare of 0.2%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
Snowflake, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Data Warehouse, holds 15.3% mindshare, down 17.4% since last year.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CData AWS Glue Data Connectors0.2%
Finimize Daily News API0.3%
Genesis VNA0.3%
Other99.2%
AWS Marketplace
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.3%
Databricks9.4%
Teradata9.1%
Other66.19999999999999%
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

Ayodeji Bayo-Makinde - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at Horizon/Bespoke Labs
Connectors have streamlined data pipelines and now need lower costs for smaller teams
I think the biggest drawback for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is the cost. For a small organization, the licensing fee may exceed the cost of just building a few custom integrations. If you do not have the need for a lot of custom integrations, it might not be a good fit. Regarding everything else about CData AWS Glue Data Connectors, it is good. CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is not a full ETL replacement because it is focused mainly on connectivity. It is not intended to replace AWS Glue transformations, Spark jobs, DBT, or data quality frameworks, but for what it does, it is fairly good at that. What kept my rating from being higher than a seven is that CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is really good at what it does. The rating is not higher than that mainly because of the cost. The licensing fees are quite expensive, and in order to justify the use, you need to have a large number of integrated systems to justify that cost. Otherwise, it does not work financially.
SunilPatil1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asset Builder at Genpact - Headstrong
Have prioritized security while managing multi-agent data migration and cloud adoption
We utilize Time Travel with Snowflake because this is a very useful feature. Everyone finds it crucial because in conventional data platforms, it's very difficult to handle these kinds of things. This feature is essential, though I don't have the use cases currently; it is just there for implementation. Regarding Snowflake's automated scaling and suspension features, this auto-scaling is very significant. We had a comparison with Databricks and Snowflake a few months back, and this auto-scaling takes an edge within Snowflake; that's what our observation reflects.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Since we started using CData AWS Glue Data Connectors, we have seen about a 20% increase in product delivery speed."
"Technical support is very, very good."
"Snowflake has improved my organization because of its high performance compared to the old way we used to operate with Microsoft SQL Server."
"There are a lot of good features, it's a very sophisticated, cutting edge technology and is super easy to use."
"The Time Travel feature is helpful for accessing historical data and the ability to clone external tables is useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just need to follow the documentation."
"For us, the virtual warehousing is likely the most valuable aspect."
"Stability-wise, this product is good."
"It requires no maintenance on our part. They handle all that. The speed is phenomenal. The pricing isn't really anything more than what you would be paying for a SQL server license or another tool to execute the same thing. We have zero maintenance on our side to do anything and the speed at which it performs queries and loads the data is amazing. It handles unstructured data extremely well, too. So, if the data is in a JSON array or an XML, it handles that super well."
 

Cons

"I think the biggest drawback for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is the cost."
"They need to improve its ETL functionality so that Snowflake becomes an ETL product. Snowpipe can do some pipelines and data ingestion, but as compare to Talend, these functionalities are limited. The ETL feature is not good enough. Therefore, Snowflake can only be used as a database. You can't use it as an ETL tool, which is a limitation. We have spoken to the vendor, and they said they are working on it, but I'm not sure when they will bring it to production."
"There are some functions in the SQL language in other products which are not yet included in Snowflake's SQL."
"Snowflake can improve its machine learning and AI capabilities."
"Portability is a big hurdle right now for our clients. Porting all of your existing SQL ecosystem, such as stored procedures, to Snowflake is a major pain point."
"I see room for improvement when it comes to credit performance. The other thing I'd like to be improved is the warehouse facility."
"We would like to have an on-premises deployment option that has the same features, including scalability."
"Users considering adding the solution should understand that Snowflake can be used only for transactional processing, not for analytical processing."
"There is a need for improvements in the documentation, this would allow more people to switch over to this solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We use Snowflake pretty heavily. We pay a significant amount of money for the tool. I'd say we pay $300k to $400K every year."
"The solution is expensive but worth the cost because the quality is there."
"Snowflake is cost-effective."
"I have not been billed yet, but it should be less. I'm still running the trial version, but it seems to be less than Databricks."
"It's expensive."
"Oracle is less expensive than Snowflake."
"The product's price range falls between average to a bit expensive range. I think the tool is worth the money if you use it properly."
"The price of Snowflake is quite reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
34%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors?
Since we started using CData AWS Glue Data Connectors, we have seen about a 20% increase in product delivery speed. Usually the time spent on creating connectors and trying to fashion custom-made c...
What needs improvement with CData AWS Glue Data Connectors?
I think the biggest drawback for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is the cost. For a small organization, the licensing fee may exceed the cost of just building a few custom integrations. If you do no...
What is your primary use case for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors?
We use CData AWS Glue Data Connectors for our machine learning pipelines on AWS, and we have attempted to use it for building data lakes as well. CData AWS Glue Data Connectors has been instrumenta...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?
We find the metering and billing experience for Snowflake to be expensive because there are many limitations to what it can do. When we compared performance-wise and cost-wise to Bedrock for some o...
What needs improvement with Snowflake?
Lessons learned about our main use case or how Snowflake performed in those areas include that the sales representatives do not really understand the product, and that the solutions consultants bas...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
Our main use case for Snowflake was to ingest data, use it for search, analytics, and data sharing with our customers; however, in reality, those use cases did not work. When it came to our challen...
 

Also Known As

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Snowflake Computing, Snowflake Data Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

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Accordant Media, Adobe, Kixeye Inc., Revana, SOASTA, White Ops
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