Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

Azure Synapse Analytics

52 Reviews and Ratings

Snowflake

373 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Synapse Analytics	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	Azure Synapse Analytics is described as the former Azure SQL Data Warehouse, evolved, and as a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives users the freedom to query data using either serverless or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.	$4,700 per month 5000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
Snowflake	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	The 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

Pricing

Azure Synapse Analytics

Snowflake

Tier 1: $4,700
per month 5,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
Tier 2: $9,200
per month 10,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
Tier 3: $21,360
per month 24,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
Tier 4: $50,400
per month 60,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
Tier 5: $117,000
per month 150,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
Tier 6: $259,200
per month 360,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)

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Pricing Offerings
Azure Synapse Analytics	Snowflake
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Azure Synapse Analytics	Snowflake
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure Synapse Analytics When client is already having or using Azure then it’s wise to go with Synapse rather than using Snowflake. We got a lot of help from Microsoft consultants and Microsoft partners while implementing our EDW via Synapse and support is easily available via Microsoft resources and … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees) Chose Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics stacks up well against the competitors I mentioned above. Technically, Azure SQL Datawarehouse is an upgraded version of the Azure SQL Database. So, the choice to move from one to the other depends on the processing needs of your company. If you need … Incentivized Helpful?	Snowflake Computing Harvey Wyche Director of Technical Product Management in Product Management at Catalina Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose Snowflake In my opinion, the other tools have similar and some different features; however, when I ran proof of technologies between Synapse and Snowflake. Snowflake did things better or just had functionality that the other tools did not. One that stuck out at the time was scale up … Incentivized Helpful? dave withers Sr Director in Engineering at Spireon (Information Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Snowflake Each of the other solutions were cloud vendor specific, Snowflake can ride on either Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. The fact that they are ANSI-sql compliant and have an effective means of offloading data makes them portable and easy to sell to teams … Incentivized Helpful? Brian Bickell Data Practice Director in Engineering at InterWorks (Information Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Snowflake In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Azure Synapse Analytics	Snowflake
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (9 ratings)	9.2 (43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.6 (2 ratings)	9.3 (19 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (2 ratings)	9.9 (8 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)