We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"The advanced features like time travel, zero copy cloning and scalability have been most useful. Snowflake requires zero maintenance for Data Warehousing on the cloud system."
"One of the valuable features is the solution’s time travel capability. The solution is highly stable. The solution is highly scalable. The initial setup is straightforward, and the deployment process is quick and efficient. I recommend the solution. Overall, I rate it a perfect ten."
"It helps with business intelligence by providing analytics that can be reported."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Its performance speed is very good."
"It can run complex workloads with varied compute."
"It is quite a convenient tool."
"Deployment is straightforward as it's a SaaS product. No maintenance required."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"The UI must be improved."
"One notable absence in Snowflake's offerings is an on-premises solution."
"The distribution methodology isn't as strong as Bethesda or SAP HANA. It's not as strong as other competitors."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
"End-to-end execution of jobs isn't possible with Snowflake, which means we have to do some customization."
"Snowflake could improve in the areas of advanced machine learning AML and generative AI."
"If you have a lot of computations, it becomes very costly."
"A room for improvement in Snowflake Analytics is Spark, particularly its connector for Spark. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is built-in analytics."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 30 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Snowflake Analytics is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake Analytics writes "A scalable tool useful for data lake and data mining processes". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox.
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