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Snowflake vs watsonx.ai comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
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) (3rd), AI Software Development (6th)
watsonx.ai
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AI Development Platforms (29th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, they serve different purposes. Snowflake is designed for Cloud Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 15.3%, down 17.6% compared to last year.
watsonx.ai, on the other hand, focuses on AI Development Platforms, holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.1% since last year.
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.3%
Databricks9.5%
Teradata8.7%
Other66.5%
Cloud Data Warehouse
AI Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
watsonx.ai1.0%
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform8.1%
Azure OpenAI7.3%
Other83.6%
AI Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

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.
AmerKhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director - Head of Solution Engineering at Osol tech (Private) Limited
Experience gains better customer interactions and user-friendliness but requires more efficient agent development
The development toolkit itself and the engine that supported the agent development was flexible. The features include support for RAG and support for generative AI. What we're looking to do is provide a human-like interface where natural language comes into play to serve HR data. Our users interact in a narrative fashion and get their queries answered. It has increased our serving of HR requests by 30%. It is user friendly, and our user base was able to work with it quite conveniently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I don't think it is difficult to maintain."
"It is one of the few products in which everything demos well."
"There are a lot of good features, it's a very sophisticated, cutting edge technology and is super easy to use."
"The product is stable and the performance is excellent."
"Snowflake is a database, and it is very good and useful. The most interesting part is that memory management is very good in Snowflake. For a business intelligence project, SQL Server is taking a lot of time for reporting services. There are a lot of calculations, and the reporting time is shown as two minutes, whereas Snowflake is taking just two seconds for the same reporting services."
"In addition to the database, Snowflake also provides ingestion capabilities."
"It is very fast and the performance is great."
"Snowflake has improved my organization because of its high performance compared to the old way we used to operate with Microsoft SQL Server."
"The development toolkit itself and the engine that supported the agent development was flexible."
 

Cons

"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."
"Portability is a big hurdle right now for our clients. Porting all of your existing SQL ecosystem, such as stored procedures, to Snowflake is a major pain point."
"The solution should offer an on-premises version also. We have some requirements where we would prefer to use it as a template."
"The addition of more AI capabilities in Snowflake would help us more."
"Snowflake needs transparency over costs and pricing."
"Sometimes, I face some issues like not having permissions. These aren't as crucial, but there are common errors sometimes where the database is down, or a table is nullified and a new table is added and you are not given access to that."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
"There is a scope for improvement. They don't currently support integration with some of the Azure and AWS native services. It would be good if they can enhance their product to integrate with these services."
"The platform and toolkit that we use to develop agents could benefit from improvements from a user-friendliness perspective."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Snowflake is very reasonable."
"The tool's pricing is based on the number of queries you want on your database. The cost is small. To get the tool's pricing, you can do the math based on the cost per query, which is $0.002. If you're running your queries frequently, your charges will be higher than running fewer queries."
"The solution is expensive."
"The pricing part is based on the computing and storage. The costs are different and then there are services costs as well."
"Snowflake licensing is more flexible and it is cheaper than other solutions. I can use it for only 10 days for MVP, or three years, and for flexible models. I can scale up, or down, and the pricing is based on the volume and duration. There are many licensing permutation combinations available."
"Users have to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which is expensive."
"Snowflake is cost-effective."
"I am not much aware of the price, but based on what I have analyzed so far, its cost is reasonable as compared to on-prem data warehouse solutions. It provides a great deal for production."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
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Questions from the Community

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?
One main area for improvement in Snowflake is cost visibility and optimization; while it's flexible and scalable, costs can increase quickly if warehouses are left running unnecessarily or workload...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
As a Data Engineer, I primarily use Snowflake for data warehousing tasks as well as ETL processing, and sometimes I also use it for data sharing. I personally find Snowflake better than other tools...
What needs improvement with watsonx.ai?
Improving on the development toolkit would help. The platform and toolkit that we use to develop agents could benefit from improvements from a user-friendliness perspective. Making it more user-fri...
What is your primary use case for watsonx.ai?
We are looking to develop HR agents on it, HR-based bots. We integrated it with our HR system, HRIS.
What advice do you have for others considering watsonx.ai?
This solution is highly recommended. On a scale of 1-10, I rate watsonx.ai a seven out of ten.
 

Also Known As

Snowflake Computing, Snowflake Data Cloud
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Sample Customers

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