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 most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is the ability to control and manage the cost."
"It is quite a convenient tool."
"The solution auto-scales and it provides concurrency."
"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."
"It helps with business intelligence by providing analytics that can be reported."
"The performance has been good."
"It's a scalable solution because you can analyze a huge amount of data in the solution."
"Considering everything I have accessed, the product's dashboard is good since it provides multiple good options, including customization options."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"We haven't seen any areas that are lacking."
"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."
"I cannot comment on the product's stability because we are still struggling with its performance."
"Moving data from legacy systems to Snowflake is not that easy. There are some cases where processors are not actually compatible with Snowflake."
"Integration into different Python and Jupyter notebooks needs to be improved."
"The distribution methodology isn't as strong as Bethesda or SAP HANA. It's not as strong as other competitors."
"End-to-end execution of jobs isn't possible with Snowflake, which means we have to do some customization."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 31 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 and Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox.
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