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    IBM watsonx.data

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AWatsonx.data is presented as an open, hybrid and governed data store that makes it possible for enterprises to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture, supported by querying, governance and open data formats to access and share data.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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    IBM watsonx.dataSnowflake
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    IBM watsonx.dataSnowflake
    Free Trial
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    IBM watsonx.dataSnowflake
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    IBM
    Chose IBM watsonx.data
    IBM watsonx.data stacks up against Snowflake very well. It come in at a less expensive price. Also, you can run IBM watsonx.data on any cloud. or on prem.. Much more flexible.
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    IBM watsonx.data integrates well with other IBM services used in our deployment and provides enterprise grade security which is critical for our regulated business
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM watsonx.data
    IBM watsonx.data has great capabilities on multiple data easy accessibility and easy to extract data and sharing to various platforms. The IBM watsonx.data still offers effective data protection and the ability to manage large amount of business data from one piont is …
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Azure Synapse Analytics
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    Teradata Vantage
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM watsonx.dataSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    9.2
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
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    Usability
    7.6
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    9.3
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    9.9
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    User Testimonials
    IBM watsonx.dataSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM watsonx.data is well suited for use cases were you have to combine various data sources to build a lakehouse. It provides a secure framework to gather data and provide access to it to build ML/AI models. It allows users to focus on prompts and business logic than spend time on data engineering.
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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
    IBM
    • It doesn't just store data but unlocks potential. I am able to analyse a vast amount of information, identify trends, and predict future outcomes.
    • It not only gives me high quality but accessible data as well. It handles missing values, outliers and feature engineering with case.
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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
    IBM
    • The UI can be slow to respond at times (just like many cloud services thought)
    • Semantic automation is still in beta and has no Japanese support yet
    • Loading data to the platform can be slow at times
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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
    IBM
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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
    IBM
    I can give it 10/10 due to its impact in data analysis management. This is the right software for driving business insights and enhancing effective decision making. The infrastructure has the formal tools for preparing data before using it to make critical decisions. The NLP has enhanced standard analysis of unstructured data from social media websites.
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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
    IBM
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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
    IBM
    IBM watsonx.data has great capabilities on multiple data easy accessibility and easy to extract data and sharing to various platforms. The IBM watsonx.data still offers effective data protection and the ability to manage large amount of business data from one piont is productive. Data warehousing capability is another implortant of using IBM watsonx.data and helpful of real time analytics production.
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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
    IBM
    • for one automation project, we managed to cut cloud storage costs by a third through IBM watsonx.data's lakehouse optimization
    • data integration projects have had a 20 % reduction in turnaround times. Can only imagine how that will improve with the Claude partnership
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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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