Oracle Autonomous Database vs. Snowflake

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Autonomous Database
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Oracle Autonomous Database provides a self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing cloud service that eliminate the overhead and human errors associated with traditional database administration. Oracle Autonomous Database takes care of configuration, tuning, backup, patching, encryption, scaling, and more.N/A
Snowflake
Score 8.9 out of 10
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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
Oracle Autonomous DatabaseSnowflake
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Oracle Autonomous DatabaseSnowflake
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Oracle Autonomous DatabaseSnowflake
Considered Both Products
Oracle Autonomous Database
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Amazon did take the lead on this with multiple flavours of DB, but Oracle Engineering is unbeatable.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Tight Coupling with ERP, Easier administration. Availability of performance metrics.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Better management and security have helped decision-making easier.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle DB is levels of magnitude more rich in its functionality, it is much stronger in security, DR, HA, etc. However, the main drawback is its cost compared to MySql.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Because I had a background with Oracle Database, and comparatively the autonomous database is very easy to scale up and to obtain performance information.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Hands down it's the best. It's secure and extremely fast. It also doesn't need a lot of babysitting. It's running itself. It does its job as advertised. This is why I feel everyone should if they haven't already taken a hard look OAD. I feel it's the future of technology at its …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
I found Oracle Autonomous Database very secure to store data and private information.I always feel secure with Oracle Autonomous Databases disaster recovery features.It is very effective to build applications for mobile and desktop devices lesser code using a low code …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
I just find it more complicated than Aws
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database has the warehouse extension, whose performance has no question, and it increases the relevancy of the company's operations and fosters performance. Further, Oracle Autonomous Database generates high-performance options, which navigates all the …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database is the right choice for multiple functionalities, for instance, the warehousing of databases, and transactional analytics. Besides, Oracle Autonomous Database generates a platform that makes the process of application development efficient and …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Security, easy to install, [and] disaster recovery [are why we went with Oracle Autonomous Database].
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
I selected Oracle Autonomous Database because of the scalability, and it's a perfect and stable database that supports multiple features at once.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Before deploying Oracle Autonomous Database, we were doing manual work on our databases.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
We had already experienced people in the team on Oracle as Oracle Database was already being used in the organization. Also, when we compared all other possibilities, it came out as a less costly solution.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Actually, we used both Oracle Autonomous Database for our Oracle-related environments and Azure SQL and Azure VMs hosting SQL Server for our SQL Server-related environments. We have different products, some of them are platform independent (can be deployed on Oracle, SQL …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
DB2 is a very old kind of database. SQL Server is not secured like Oracle, and I personally do not recommend it.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database is easy to deploy and use. Provides various supports with security. So it is much better in terms of complexity and performance to manage our application in real time. Cost is also less as compare to other databases. Easy development and deployment is …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
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Latest DB with automated features like self-driving cars.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
AWS and Digital Ocean are two of the major other systems we have and are still using. But we do use Oracle's systems far more than we use Digital Ocean and AWS. We selected Oracle Autonomous Database mainly because of the new cloud 2.0 benefits. They have convinced us to begin …
Snowflake
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can …
Chose Snowflake
These are comparable products that can make sense depending on the specific needs of your organization. All are certainly serviceable and have varying pros and cons. Snowflake seems to provide the greatest degree of flexibility and easy scalability as new data gets brought into …
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake stacks up well against many of the other players in the space. We used Teradata before and it seems to perform better.
Chose Snowflake
We needed scalability and a new way of organizing our data; Snowflake allowed us to have a clearer view of our data warehouses and schemas. Snowflake is also way superior in terms of speed and quick insights from the raw data you query, which is very valuable to us.
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake has an attractive pricing model with auto-suspend and auto-resume and pay per use. AWS Redshift requires higher administrative efforts to maintain and scale the platform whereas with Snowflake those admin tasks are not needed or automatically taken care of.
Chose Snowflake
Cloud -Native architecture, Separation of Storage and Compute provides flexibility, Scalable Compute, Cost and Data Security
Chose Snowflake
We had a MS SQL server with over 2 TB of ram & 51 processors that we were using, that could no longer handle our workload. Snowflake can handle 3 times that workload with ease and efficiency.
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake is much faster and easier to write queries and pull data. But the visualization part of Snowflake is not as good as them. Also, Snowflake only supports SQL queries but not python or other languages. So basically Snowflake is the expert in its field but not suitable …
Chose Snowflake
We particularly liked Snowflake's security model as well as its unique storage (whereby everything is essentially a pointer to immutable micro-partitions, which is the key behind its zero-copy cloning, its secure sharing, its time travel, etc.). and also how it separates …
Chose Snowflake
While Snowflake is more open to cloud eco system, SAP integrated well with SAP eco system products like SAP ECC or SAP S/4. So for people who have invested heavily in SAP eco system including SAP ECC or S/4, it makes sense to go with SAP DWC which is also evolving very rapidly. …
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 …
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 …
Chose Snowflake
Azure and Snowflake compared very similarly, but Snowflake provided more options to integrate and connect with tools/companies that were not partners. It seemed to be a more flexible environment. The barrier for entry on Oracle and Google we just too complicated. In particular, …
Chose Snowflake
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 …
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake has won the match because it is giving an excellent performance with its efficient features and reliable results. This is a totally secure program for our precious and important data.
Chose Snowflake
Our initial data warehousing solution was Treasure Data. We had issues with the costly pricing model, which would be exhorbitant if we want to hold our data in memory and query using Presto. As a result, some heavy lifting was done in Hive (managed by Treasure Data); …
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake beats these other products in every category it was rated against
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 …
Chose Snowflake
Redshift compute and storage can be scaled up/down together (though they added some features recently, they don't quite add up). I haven't tried Avalanche or Firebolt but would love to in the near future, due to their pedigree or revolutionary billing methods.
Chose Snowflake
- Cost was the main aspect on the decision.
- Performance was in par or better compared to other tools in the market.
- Snowflake in my opinion stacks better than other tools I have used in the past.
Chose Snowflake
Accommodates future data types such as JSON and XML. Scalability is another advantage. Pay per use is beneficial for organizations like yours. Direct connectors with AWS help us to go with it. No limit on user creation and clone data not eating up extra disk space are a few …
Chose Snowflake
Since we switch from amazon redshift to Snowflake, we found Snowflake is much better than redshift in many ways, including the data integrate and data pull. However, comparing directly pull data from amazon s3, Snowflake is quite slow in terms of data pull speed and the more …
Chose Snowflake
Compared to Amazon Redshift, Snowflake is slightly easier and faster to achieve ROI but based on the user's perspective, the two tools have very little difference since both are leveraging SQL to pull data from AWS S3. Snowflake is also working with Microsoft Azure but it is …
Chose Snowflake
Our issue with Redshift was that it was very expensive. On top of that, queries were still slow and if we used more of Redshift's memory, then it would have cost even more. Snowflake is not cheap, but less costly for us. Plus, the performance was much better. Also, we got to …
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake is a lot faster, feels more lightweight, and is overall easier for our BI team to manage and grant warehouse accesses.
Features
Oracle Autonomous DatabaseSnowflake
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Autonomous Database
7.2
Ratings
17% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Version control tools6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Test data generation5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance optimization tools8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Schema maintenance9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database change management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Autonomous Database
8.3
Ratings
1% below category average
Snowflake
-
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User management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Database status reporting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle Autonomous DatabaseSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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9.2
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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10.0
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Usability
8.0
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9.3
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Support Rating
-
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9.9
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User Testimonials
Oracle Autonomous DatabaseSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where this is best suited are like where there are not large set of data which has to be analyzed and extracted.It helps in the efficiency of data .It is also well suited for medium size companies where you have to create a common data for everyone. As for large set of data, there can be network latency issues and thus there are some limitations of this software.
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If you need a quick query, snowflake is the way to go. It's super simple and scalable; we were struggling before with Azure, and with Snowflake, everything runs smoothly, and we have more control over our schemas and warehouses. Snowflake, in my opinion, is the next step when you want to scale your business and manage data. If your company is still small, there may be cheaper options.
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Pros
  • Robust - this product doesn't have a lot of downtime. It's less prone to errors than some other tools I've worked with.
  • Scalable - we can keep adding more things to it. We haven't hit any roadblocks when we've tried to do more with our database.
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  • 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
  • There is no access to the physical host of the DB. This is expected from a managed DB. Everything must be done through the console or via API calls. This is a new learning curve for the DBAs.
  • Due to the lack of physical host access, certain features are not supported, such as Transportable tablespaces and Oracle LogMiner.
  • Certain special data types, (such as XMLType) are not allowed; be sure the app vendor certifies their product on this platform.
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  • 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
Autonomous is the way of the future and this is one system which is crucial to any system and is also autonomous. It is self-tuning and self-maintaining which are major advantages.
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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
The product is continuously evolving and new features are added frequently. Management options through the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console and through the command line and API are being enhanced frequently.
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The interface is similar to other SQL query systems I've used and is fairly easy to use. My only complaint is the syntax issues. Another thing is that the error messages are not always the easiest thing to understand, especially when you incorporate temp tables. Some of that is to be expected with any new database.
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Support Rating
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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
Hands down it's the best. It's secure and extremely fast. It also doesn't need a lot of babysitting. It's running itself. It does its job as advertised. This is why I feel everyone should if they haven't already taken a hard look OAD. I feel it's the future of technology at its best. Everyone should be taking notice of how far technology has come and where it's going.
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Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can buy according to your needs. And the integration options with various tools like Sigma are add-ons.
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Return on Investment
  • Oracle Autonomous Database has a wide range of warehouses, which is competent and of high performance.
  • The transactional processing power that Oracle Autonomous Database outlines are completely important and digital.
  • The efficiency of Oracle Autonomous Database data encryption fosters security measures, a form that demands more threat detectors.
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  • 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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ScreenShots

Oracle Autonomous Database Screenshots

Screenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database is supported on Shared or Dedicated Exadata InfrastructureScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports workload-optimized cloud services for Data Warehouse, Transaction Processing,  JSON centric applicationsScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports  both License Included and Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL) with  Yearly and Pay As You Go subscription pricingScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides built-in development  tools such as SQL Developer web, Performance Hub, APIs for data managementScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides native shell for API driven development

Snowflake Screenshots

Screenshot of Snowflake Installation