We performed a comparison between Oracle Big Data Appliance and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."
"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."
"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"Once you have finished your designs they can be easily imported to Snowflake and the information can be readily accessed without an IT expert."
"The solution speeds up the process of onboarding."
"The speed of data loading and being able to quickly create the environment are most valuable."
"I like the idea that you can assign roles and responsibilities, limiting access to data."
"The most valuable features are sharing data, Time Travel, Zero Copy Cloning, performance, and speed."
"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."
"Snowflake has a variety of other ETL provisions that they provide. You can use your own ETL pipeline. Additionally, they provide adapters, and they are always evolving, it is a well-developed solution."
"We find the data sharing and data marketplace aspects of Snowflake absolutely amazing."
"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"An additional feature I'd like to see is called materialized views, which can speed up some run times. I'd like it to be able to be used where you can have multiple tables inside them; materialized view. That would be nice. As well as being able to run cursors, to be able to do some bulk updates and some more advanced querying, table building on the fly."
"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."
"I think that Snowflake could improve its user interface. The current one is not interactive."
"The scheduling system can definitely be better because we had to use external airflow for that. There should be orchestration for the scheduling system. Snowflake currently does not support machine learning, so it is just storage. They also need some alternatives for SQL Query. There should also be support for Spark in different languages such as Python."
"More data governance and access control features would be a welcome addition."
"The data science functionality could be improved in terms of the machine learning process."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"It needs a bit more rigor and governance, which is something you don't get with newer tools. This makes it less enterprise scalable. Its governance and structure can be enhanced, which would really be valuable. I would like to see some kind of prebuilt functionality in terms of having almost like a pre-built data warehouse. A functionality for generating automated kind of pieces would be good."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Teradata, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our Oracle Big Data Appliance vs. Snowflake report.
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