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Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch 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

Pulse Elasticsearch and Ope...
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (14th)
Snowflake
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
104
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (1st), Cloud Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (2nd), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (7th), AI Software Development (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch and Snowflake aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is designed for Indexing and Search and holds a mindshare of 0.7%.
Snowflake, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Data Warehouse, holds 15.6% mindshare, down 21.3% since last year.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch0.7%
Elastic Search12.0%
Lucidworks6.3%
Other81.0%
Indexing and Search
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.6%
Databricks10.7%
Teradata8.0%
Other65.7%
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

Rafayel Agamyan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Search performance has transformed customer document access and continues to improve satisfaction
Customer satisfaction has significantly improved since switching to Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch from old legacy services, as many insights from customers indicate that latency has changed dramatically and the speed is significantly better now. For others looking into using Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, it is definitely recommended to give it a try, especially if old legacy systems that are slow are currently being used. Lately, OpenSearch has come up with a new version that greatly enhances speed, so trying it is encouraged and it will be loved. A review rating of 9 reflects the overall satisfaction with Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
35%
Healthcare Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise58
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch has been utilized for around three years. The main use case is using it as a search engine for customers. Depending on the company, insurance companies search for...
What advice do you have for others considering Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
Customer satisfaction has significantly improved since switching to Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch from old legacy services, as many insights from customers indicate that latency has changed dr...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?
For pricing, setup cost, and licensing, everything is managed smoothly. Regarding licensing, it is inexpensive. The setup cost is low, mainly due to AWS Marketplace; we only need to pay for serverl...
What needs improvement with Snowflake?
Snowflake is already quite improved, but they have recently introduced AI features. AI integration would be beneficial for direct data capturing from systems such as SAP and Salesforce to Snowflake...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
Snowflake is primarily used to handle the data warehousing part, for creating data modeling, and also keeping the raw data and creating reporting data so that it is further used for data analytics....
 

Also Known As

No data available
Snowflake Computing, Snowflake Data Cloud
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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