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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
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (15th)
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) (7th), AI Software Development (9th)
 

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 1.2%.
Snowflake, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Data Warehouse, holds 15.1% mindshare, down 18.7% since last year.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch1.2%
Elastic Search10.1%
OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL)6.2%
Other82.5%
Indexing and Search
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.1%
Databricks9.7%
Teradata8.8%
Other66.4%
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"It is quite easy, and I think it was really great the way they offered the services."
"I like Snowflake's data exchange capabilities. It can exchange data with downstream systems and other vendor partners as well."
"Working with Parquet files is support out of the box and it makes large dataset processing much easier."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is the query performance."
"The most valuable feature has been the Snowflake data sharing and dynamic data masking."
"Scaling is a big plus point of Snowflake."
"Its performance is most valuable. As compared to SQL Server, we are able to see a significant improvement in performance with Snowflake."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is its performance. We can access the data quickly. Additionally, it handles structured and non-structured data."
 

Cons

"I think the way they support the ingesting service for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is not really great."
"To ensure the proper functioning of Snowflake as an MDS, it relies heavily on other partner tools."
"The stability has been phenomenal up until lately. We haven't had any issues until the last month."
"For the Snowflake database, there should be some third-party features for the ETL."
"I can only access Snowflake from the web. It would be better if we could have an app that we can install locally on our laptops to connect to the server without needing to go to the web page. Apart from that, it's hard to point out any limitations in the tool."
"Users considering adding the solution should understand that Snowflake can be used only for transactional processing, not for analytical processing."
"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."
"Although the UI has improved lately, they still need to work on their UiPath, the workspace area."
"Snowflake needs transparency over costs and pricing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Snowflake’s pricing is transparent. It is one of the cheapest cloud database warehouse providers. The tool follows a credit cost model. Everything on Snowflake is charged on the basis of credits. The credits depend on the cloud region and the public cloud provider that we use. Hence, the cost per credit will be different for AWS in Frankfurt and AWS in India. I think North Virginia is the cheapest region in terms of cost per credit. You will be consuming around 16 credits for large data warehouses."
"The price of Snowflake is quite reasonable."
"Pricing can be confusing for customers."
"The pricing for Snowflake is competitive."
"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."
"It is on a monthly basis. It is based on your usage. There are no additional costs from the point of the licensing fee. We do give some kind of evaluation to the customers about how much it is going to be. You can decide in Snowflake the virtual machine that you are using for customers. There are several kinds of virtual machines that you can use. It is similar to the clothing sizes: small to extra large. If you need more power in the coming month, you can decide in advance and take a more powerful machine. You can just select it from the platform. You can also decide which machine you want to take for extracting data."
"Snowflake has consumption-based costs; users only pay for storage and computing."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
32%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Healthcare Company
11%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
My primary use case is powering up the search in the product.
What advice do you have for others considering Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
I have not used the SQL query support feature. I did assess the RESTful API support. I have not utilized Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch machine learning features, as there was no use case for m...
What needs improvement with Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch?
I think the way they support the ingesting service for Pulse Elasticsearch and OpenSearch is not really great. If I got to attach a few more records, they don't support it. It's all rewrite every t...
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?
Snowflake can be improved in terms of its recent switch to a new user interface, which feels less intuitive compared to the old one. Moving to this new interface is something that I would like to s...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
My main use case for Snowflake is building ETL pipelines and ad-hoc analytics on data that we have. A specific example of a pipeline and ad-hoc analytics task I have worked on using Snowflake invol...
 

Also Known As

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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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