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Snowflake Analytics vs Vertica comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

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

Snowflake Analytics
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (1st)
Vertica
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Snowflake Analytics is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vertica is 5.7%, up from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

KamleshPant - PeerSpot reviewer
Data ecosystem thrives with advanced governance and streaming capabilities
It is a data offering where I can see data lineage, data governance, and data security. Snowflake has a streaming capability to work with real-time streaming data and delta tables. Additionally, task management, job scheduling, and connecting multiple data sources unify my data across internal and external sources. The system ecosystem for analytics is enhanced, and AI capabilities are incorporated.
T Venkatesh - PeerSpot reviewer
Processes query faster through multiple systems simultaneously, but it could support different data types
We use the solution for various tasks, including preparing data marts and generating offers. It helps extract data based on rules from the policy team and provides insights to enhance business operations. We also analyze transactions to target customers and improve business performance The…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's not necessary to use a physical server."
"It ensures the optimization of the application development while maintaining the user-friendly nature of its UI."
"Snowflake Analytics is pretty easy to use with the connectors for integration with the tools and systems in my company."
"The most important feature is the warehouse functionality."
"Snowflake has a streaming capability to work with real-time streaming data and delta tables."
"Its structure aids in storing, managing, and analyzing large datasets in the cloud, using various relationships like one-to-one and many-to-one, ensuring consistency in the data structure."
"Snowflake Analytics' predictive analytics elements, which incorporate AI, are good and easy to integrate."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering."
"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
 

Cons

"There are issues while loading data from Snowflake Analytics to the Power BI reporting."
"However, if it offered flexibility similar to Oracle and supported more heterogeneous data sources and database connectivity, it would be even better."
"Snowflake's Snowpark is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Integration into different Python and Jupyter notebooks needs to be improved."
"The solution’s interface is good but it could be improved."
"Machine learning should be improved."
"I don't see many drawbacks with Snowflake Analytics, but it's not as mature as other tools. It is evolving and needs to integrate various features, like data loading and analytics, better. These components are not fully connected, so the tool should become a more integrated application."
"The product's cost is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"When using Snowflake, you pay based on your usage. They calculate how much CPU has been used. If you use excess warehouse storage, you are charged one credit per hour. If you are in Asia, you are charged $3 per credit. If you have 10 users running parallel with the same excess, you will be charged $30."
"It's not costly if you configure it properly to ensure optimal performance. People don't configure it properly, which is why costs go up."
"The tool is quite expensive."
"Snowflake Analytics is not an expensive solution, and its pricing is average."
"I have been using free trial version."
"I rate the product's licensing cost a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing a seven. The solution's pricing is high."
"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price."
"The pricing depends on the license model because there are several. It depends on the client, but it's cheaper than other solutions. I think it's cheap for all the functionality and robustness. It's not very expensive to deploy."
"Read the fine print carefully."
"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
"The solution is free and we pay for the storage."
"The pricing for this solution is very reasonable compared to other vendors."
"I am aware that we have licensed it, but I have no knowledge of its cost."
"The price is reasonable. We use a pay per license model. Firstly, you need to buy a license. After that, you mainly pay the annual support fee of around 20% or 25%. I think their prices are quite reasonable."
"Work with a vendor, if possible, and take advantage of more aggressive discounts at mid-fiscal year (April) and fiscal year-end (October).​"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Retailer
13%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake Analytics?
Snowflake is better and cheaper than Redshift and other cloud warehousing systems. It's economical.
What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?
Most features are already available. Perhaps AIML integration might be further needed, or Snowflake is already implementing it. AIML-based SQL prompt and query generation could be an area for enhan...
What do you like most about Vertica?
Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?
The solution is relatively cost-effective. Pricing and licensing are reasonable compared to other solutions.
What needs improvement with Vertica?
The product could improve by adding support for a wider variety of data types and enhancing features to better compete with other databases.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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Sample Customers

Lionsgate, Adobe, Sony, Capital One, Akamai, Deliveroo, Snagajob, Logitech, University of Notre Dame, Runkeeper
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