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Microsoft Fabric vs Snowflake 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Fabric
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Management Platforms (DMP) (9th)
Snowflake
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
106
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (1st), Cloud Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (1st), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (5th), AI Software Development (8th)
 

Featured Reviews

Ankush-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer at Momentus
Unified analytics platform has simplified complex dashboards and supported secure data pipelines
One thing about Microsoft Fabric that I think could be improved is the potential confusion when working with real-time data versus normal batch loading. If you are dealing with real-time databases or data, you need to work with Event Hub and event streaming, but for normal batch processing, you can usually go ahead with the SQL warehouse or the data lakehouse. I recommend that Microsoft unify these processes, so using one source can meet both requirements. If I am working with real-time data and batched data, I should not have to manage two separate systems; instead of creating an Event Hub and a lakehouse, users could simply manage one house to handle both real-time analysis and batch processing, making it simpler and more user-friendly from both business and development perspectives.
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

"The best feature Microsoft Fabric offers in my experience is the Dataflow."
"The most valuable and useful feature I have found in Microsoft Fabric is data consistency, which is the top thing."
"The features and capabilities of Microsoft Fabric that I have found most useful include it being a uniform platform."
"The tool is very easy to use. The solution’s desktop features are also very easy to use. Also, the product’s SQL-based connectivity is also good. It can connect with any tool."
"Snowflake is user-friendly and reliable in creating the data warehouse and carrying out data modeling."
"This is the advanced version of the cloud version, so it's really a flexible tool. If you have it implemented at home, you can access it from anywhere."
"We were able to implement the entire data eco-system in less than five months, from data integration, data warehousing, ELT, producing fact and dimensional tables, and finally reports."
"As long as you don't need to worry about the storage or cost, this solution would be one of the best ones on the market for scalability purposes."
"Snowflake is an enormously useful platform."
"I like Snowflake's data exchange capabilities. It can exchange data with downstream systems and other vendor partners as well."
"Snowflake is ahead of the competitors because it's completely automatic and hands-off in terms of maintenance."
 

Cons

"I think the Copilot usage in Microsoft Fabric can be improved."
"One thing about Microsoft Fabric that I think could be improved is the potential confusion when working with real-time data versus normal batch loading."
"In my experience, Microsoft Fabric is not stable."
"Availability is a problem."
"Their strategy is just to leverage what you've got and put Snowflake in the middle. It does work well with other tools. You have to buy a separate reporting tool and a separate data loading tool, whereas, in some platforms, these tools are baked in. In the long-term, they'll need to add more direct partnerships to the ecosystem so that it's not like adding on tools around Snowflake to make it work. They can also consider including Snowflake native reporting tools versus partnering with other reporting tools. It would kind of change where they sit in the market."
"Although the UI has improved lately, they still need to work on their UiPath, the workspace area."
"Currently, Snowflake doesn't support unstructured data."
"If they could bring in some tools for data integration, it would be really great."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
"I would like to see a client version of the GUI."
"Snowflake is very good overall, but it could improve documentation for supporting different structures."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is hard to say because we're usually engaged in the transition as opposed to the long term. Their storage costs are easily within pennies of what AWS S3 would normally cost. Most of the clients I've been working with are in the financial sector, and they're relatively small. I would put them in an SMB connection. The first thing we have to bring up for people is that they're going to build this. They shouldn't store their data in S3. They should pipeline directly into Snowflake and use it on their storage. So, the cost is a big issue because these are small to medium size companies, and that is the biggest thing we had to price point for them."
"Pricing is approximately $US 50 per DB. Terabyte is around $US 50 per month."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"Snowflake is expensive, but when I consider what we get for that price, it's fair. I rate the solution three out of five for affordability, right in the middle."
"The tool's pricing is based on the number of queries you want on your database. The cost is small. To get the tool's pricing, you can do the math based on the cost per query, which is $0.002. If you're running your queries frequently, your charges will be higher than running fewer queries."
"I have worked with multiple clouds, and cost-wise, it is a bit costlier than others, such as Redshift. Its price should be reduced."
"Snowflake goes by credits. For a financial institution where you have 5,000 employees, monthly costs may run up to maybe $5,000 to $6,000. This is actually based on the usage. It is mostly the compute cost. Your computing cost is the variable that is actually based on your usage. It is pay-per-use. In a pay-per-use case, you won't be spending more than $6,000 to $7,000 a month. It is not more than that for a small or medium enterprise, and it may come down to $100K per year. Storage is very standard, which is $23 a terabyte. It is not much for any enterprise. If you have even 20 terabytes, you are not spending more than $400 per month, which may turn out to be $2,000 to $3,000 per annum."
"The whole licensing system is based on credit points. You can also make a license agreement with the company so that you buy credit points and then you use them. What you do not use in one year can be carried over to the next year."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Microsoft Fabric?
I think Microsoft Fabric can be improved, but I feel that everything is adequate. Everything is acceptable regarding the needed improvements.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Fabric?
My main use case for Microsoft Fabric is data engineering. A specific example of something my team has used Microsoft Fabric for is to collect information from many sources and put it in the data w...
What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Fabric?
My advice to others looking into using Microsoft Fabric is that it is a good solution. I heard from the cloud infrastructure team about this product. I do not have any additional thoughts about Mic...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?
I am not the person who manages pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Our team is not limited in pricing. The only experience we have had in terms of running and reprocessing a large number of histor...
What needs improvement with Snowflake?
One main area for improvement in Snowflake is cost visibility and optimization; while it's flexible and scalable, costs can increase quickly if warehouses are left running unnecessarily or workload...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
As a Data Engineer, I primarily use Snowflake for data warehousing tasks as well as ETL processing, and sometimes I also use it for data sharing. I personally find Snowflake better than other tools...
 

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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