We performed a comparison between SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 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."Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics."
"Data modeling is a valuable feature."
"A robust and efficient product."
"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."
"It is a robust system."
"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."
"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."
"From a data warehouse perspective, it's an excellent all-round solution. It's very complete."
"It is a very good platform. It can handle structured and semi-structured data, and it can be used for your data warehouse or data lake. It can load and deal with any data that you have. It can extract data from an on-premises database or a website and make it available in the cloud. It has very fast implementation and integration as compared to other solutions. There is no need for the DBA to manage or do the day-to-day DBA tasks, which is one of the greatest things about it."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake are its performance and power."
"It requires no maintenance on our part. They handle all that. The speed is phenomenal. The pricing isn't really anything more than what you would be paying for a SQL server license or another tool to execute the same thing. We have zero maintenance on our side to do anything and the speed at which it performs queries and loads the data is amazing. It handles unstructured data extremely well, too. So, if the data is in a JSON array or an XML, it handles that super well."
"Working with Parquet files is support out of the box and it makes large dataset processing much easier."
"Time travel is one feature that really helps us out."
"The speed of data loading and being able to quickly create the environment are most valuable."
"Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier."
"The program is difficult to learn to use"
"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."
"Design and modeling could be simplified."
"The product could provide more features."
"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."
"It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us."
"There could be better ELT tools that are appropriate for Snowflake. We decided on Matillion and it seemed to be the only one. There need to be better choices, it would be great if Snowflake provided an ELT solution that people could use. Additionally, if there was a pure cloud-based ELT tool it would be useful."
"The data sharing capabilities across business units within the organization should be better."
"I don't know about GCP, if they have connected for GCP. If they don't, they should allow for it."
"To ensure the proper functioning of Snowflake as an MDS, it relies heavily on other partner tools."
"Some SQL language functions could be included."
"The user interface continues to be an issue, especially when we need to get data out of Snowflake. It's very easy to get data in, but it's not too easy to get it out or extract it."
"They need to improve its ETL functionality so that Snowflake becomes an ETL product. Snowpipe can do some pipelines and data ingestion, but as compare to Talend, these functionalities are limited. The ETL feature is not good enough. Therefore, Snowflake can only be used as a database. You can't use it as an ETL tool, which is a limitation. We have spoken to the vendor, and they said they are working on it, but I'm not sure when they will bring it to production."
"It would be better if they had a data profile tool that tells me where the gaps are in my time series data."
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SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 15th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse writes "Powerful solution with good security and audit procedure features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is most compared with SAP BW4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse vs. Snowflake report.
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