We performed a comparison between Actian Ingres and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."The deployment of our solution across a number of servers using Ingres .NET has meant that we can protect the database server behind a highly secure firewall and deploy the front end solutions on a normal web server."
"Snowflake is faster than on-premise systems and allows for variable compute power based on need."
"It is very fast and the performance is great."
"Snowflake has three great features: Snowpiping is proving to be very valuable, Time Travel is excellent, and Snowpipes are another great functionality the solution has made available."
"Working with Parquet files is support out of the box and it makes large dataset processing much easier."
"It is a very easy-to-use solution. It is user-friendly, and its setup time is very less."
"Snowflake is scalable both in terms of the amount of data that you can run through it and the number of users that engage with it."
"The syntax is advanced which reduces the time to write code."
"The best thing about Snowflake is its flexibility in changing warehouse sizes or computational power."
"The ability to reset the log file without stopping the DBMS would be helpful for us."
"We would like to be able to do modeling with Snowflake. It should support statistical modeling."
"They don't have any SLAs in place. It would be better if they did."
"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."
"Their UiPath, the workspace area, needs some work."
"The solution could improve the user interface and add functionality to the system."
"The product's performance could be improved."
"If you go with one cloud provider, you can't switch."
"There are some stored procedures that we've had trouble with. The solution also needs to fine-tune the connectors to be able to connect into the system source."
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Actian Ingres is ranked 22nd in Data Warehouse while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. Actian Ingres is rated 9.0, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Actian Ingres writes "Good multi-platform SQL compatibility, as well as performance and data integrity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Actian Ingres is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Databricks and Teradata, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation.
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