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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DataStax Enterprise

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ADataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the scale-out, cloud-native NoSQL database built on Apache Cassandra. DSE is Developer Ready providing developers the freedom of choice of REST, GraphQL, CQL and JSON/Document APIs.N/A

    Snowflake

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
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    DataStax EnterpriseSnowflake
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    DataStax EnterpriseSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    DataStax EnterpriseSnowflake
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    DataStax EnterpriseSnowflake
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of DataStax Enterprise and Snowflake
    Feature
    DataStax Enterprise
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Snowflake
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    Ratings
    Performance9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility5.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DataStax EnterpriseSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.2
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.3
    (19 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    DataStax EnterpriseSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DataStax
    Real-time transaction processing (both reads and writes) is where DataStax Enterprise shines. It's very fast with linear scalability should more resources be needed. Additional nodes are added very easily. DataStax Enterprise on its own (without Solr or Spark enabled) isn't well suited for long complicated reports. The data model doesn't support joining multiple tables together which is common in BI reporting.
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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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    Pros
    DataStax
    • Datastax Cassandra provides high availability and good performance for a database. It is built on top of open source Apache Cassandra so you can always somewhat understand the internal functioning and why.
    • Datastax Cassandra is fairly simple to start using, you can install/setup your cluster and be productive in 1 day.
    • Datastax Cassandra provides a lot of good detailed documentation, and when starting, the detailed free videos on the Datastax site and documentation are very helpful.
    • Datastax Enterprise Edition of Cassandra provides more tools, good support, and quick response SLA for enterprise business support.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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    Cons
    DataStax
    • Cassandra is a bit difficult to learn and understand
    • The costs are slightly higher for our company
    • Hardware requirement is moderate to high at the beginning
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DataStax
    We will continue to use it because it scales well with commodity hardware and we are satisfied with the documentation and support.
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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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    Usability
    DataStax
    There is a bit of a learning curve and tasks that are simple in traditional RDBMS systems can be complicated with DataStax Enterprise but once you get the hang of denormalizing data and getting the data model correct DataStax Enterprise is very usable. Usability from the developer's standpoint is very simple - the complication is on the architecture side with the data model.
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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Support Rating
    DataStax
    DataStax has the best community. They have instant customer support to solve problems and are knowledgeable of the problems faced by the customer. The documentation is pretty top-notch.
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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Alternatives Considered
    DataStax
    DataStax Enterprise offered best-in-class write performance and scalability. The customer support team was very helpful in the adoption of new technology.
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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Return on Investment
    DataStax
    • Highly Scalable Database, Highly Available Services, and Platforms.
    • High Performance, Low Latency and Highest throughput across varying workloads.
    • Configured, Tuned and Monitored correctly works to provide the best user experience!
    • Negative: Maintenance and Debugging Corner Cases
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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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