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Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse vs Snowflake comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
14th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Snowflake
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (1st), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (4th), AI Software Development (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is 4.2%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snowflake is 15.3%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.3%
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse4.2%
Other80.5%
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1297710 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Analytics and data security needs are met but optimization requires improvement
We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs. We continue to use it with satisfaction. Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not…
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

"I like the fact that the solution is self-patching, that it's running machine-learning generally across its logs all the time in order to identify any issues and to self-repair."
"I loved the simplicity of loading the data and simply relying on the self-tuning capabilities of ADW."
"The solution has a self-backup, so you don't need a DBA (database administrator) to do a backup."
"The performance and scalability are awesome."
"Self-patching and runs machine-learning across its logs all the time"
"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."
"The solution integrates well with Power BI."
"It is an extremely scalable solution since you can dynamically change the resources as some other cloud solutions."
"The most valuable features are sharing data, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, performance, and speed."
"It's user-friendly. It's SQL-driven. The fact that business can also go to this application and query because they know SQL is the biggest factor."
"I like the ability to work with a managed service on the cloud and that is easy to start with."
"I have found the solution's most valuable features to be storage, flexibility, ease of use, and security."
"I think this solution provides the best potential of any data warehousing product where they choose to use Snowflake instead of Oracle or DBII."
"The Time Travel feature is helpful for accessing historical data and the ability to clone external tables is useful."
"With no effort on our part, we could have a stronger system compared to the effort and cost of doing a similar thing on-premises."
"The product's most important feature is unloading data to S3."
 

Cons

"Oracle should increase visibility options because what's available now is limited."
"One of the major problem is creating custom tablespace."
"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is not available as an on-premises solution."
"The installation process is complex. Oracle can make the installation process better."
"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."
"My main suggestion for Oracle is the configuration and key values that come for JSON files. When we create a table, especially if you see in our RedShift or some other stuff, if I create a table on top of a JSON file with multiple array columns or superset columns, those column values create some difficulty in Oracle."
"We are not satisfied with the technical support. Their understanding is lacking."
"Ease of interconnectivity could be improved by which I mean setting up the VPN access and the like from on-premises to cloud."
"The solution needs more connectors."
"Its price should be improved. On the cost-side, it is more expensive than others."
"There are some challenges with loading unstructured data and integrating some message queues or brokers. In one project, we had a problem connecting to one of the message queues and we had to take a different route altogether on Microsoft Azure."
"There are some stored procedures that we've had trouble with. The solution also needs to fine-tune the connectors to be able to connect into the system source."
"The pricing of the solution should be much easier to calculate or find by yourself."
"I don't think that the AI tools in Snowflake are good."
"They need to improve its ETL functionality so that Snowflake becomes an ETL product."
"The solution should offer an on-premises version also. We have some requirements where we would prefer to use it as a template."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."
"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."
"The price depends on the configuration we choose."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."
"The solution is expensive."
"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."
"The pricing is economical as compared to traditional solutions like Oracle and competitive pricing."
"It is not cheap."
"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."
"Snowflake has consumption-based costs; users only pay for storage and computing."
"I have worked with multiple clouds, and cost-wise, it is a bit costlier than others, such as Redshift. Its price should be reduced."
"The price of Snowflake is quite reasonable."
"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."
"The solution is expensive but worth the cost because the quality is there."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Media Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
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
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.
What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company.
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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