We performed a comparison between Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum 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."A user-friendly and reliable solution."
"Very easy to use and easy to query."
"It is a very well-distributed system. It has different data engines for different applications. Many applications can use different computational engines at the same time. In terms of data processing, the feeling was similar to working with a relational database but in a scalable way."
"It was relatively easy to use, and it was easy for people to convert to it."
"Can be leveraged with respect to better performance, auto tuning and competition."
"The features I found most valuable with this solution are sharing options and built-in time zone conversion."
"The product is quite fast."
"My company wanted to have all our data in one single place and this what we use Snowflake for. Snowflake also allows us to build connectors to different data sources."
"Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture."
"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"With VMware Tanzu Greenplum, one can make a huge database table and analyze the queries by adding in the SQL command. Some hint or command for the query goes over the multi-parallel execution."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"The loading speed is very good."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Snowflake has support for stored procedures, but it is not that powerful."
"Its transaction application needs improvement."
"We would like to be able to do modeling with Snowflake. It should support statistical modeling."
"If we can have a feature where the results can be moved to different tabs, so that I can compare the results with earlier queries before applying the changes, it would be great."
"For the Snowflake database, there should be some third-party features for the ETL. It would also be good to be able to use some kind of controls to get the data either from another database or a flat file. Its price should be improved. It should be cheaper than Microsoft."
"The solution could improve by allowing non-structured data, such as PDFs, images, or videos. We cannot see the data."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"The cost efficiency and monitoring of this solution could be improved. It's easy to spend a lot on Snowflake and it does offer monitoring tools but they're pretty basic."
"They need to enhance integration with other Big Data products... to integrate with Big Data platforms, and to open a bi-directional connection between Greenplum and Big Data."
"Some integration with other platforms like design tools, and ETL development tools, that will enable some advanced functionality, like fully down processing, etc."
"We would like to see Greenplum maintain a closer relationship with and parity to features implemented in PostgreSQL."
"I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement."
"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."
"Extra filters would be helpful."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"It will be very useful if we could communicate with other database types from Greenplum (using a database link)."
Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Snowflake is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop and Teradata. See our Snowflake vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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