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CData AWS Glue Data Connectors vs Snowflake comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

CData AWS Glue Data Connectors
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (132nd)
Snowflake
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (1st), Cloud Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (1st), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (6th), AI Software Development (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

CData AWS Glue Data Connectors and Snowflake aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is designed for AWS Marketplace and holds a mindshare of 0.2%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Snowflake, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Data Warehouse, holds 15.4% mindshare, down 16.8% since last year.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CData AWS Glue Data Connectors0.2%
True PACS SaaS0.3%
CTG Cross-Border VPC Connection (Asia Pacific:Seoul-China:Beijing)0.3%
Other99.2%
AWS Marketplace
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake15.4%
Databricks9.3%
Teradata9.2%
Other66.1%
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

Ayodeji Bayo-Makinde - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at Horizon/Bespoke Labs
Connectors have streamlined data pipelines and now need lower costs for smaller teams
I think the biggest drawback for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is the cost. For a small organization, the licensing fee may exceed the cost of just building a few custom integrations. If you do not have the need for a lot of custom integrations, it might not be a good fit. Regarding everything else about CData AWS Glue Data Connectors, it is good. CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is not a full ETL replacement because it is focused mainly on connectivity. It is not intended to replace AWS Glue transformations, Spark jobs, DBT, or data quality frameworks, but for what it does, it is fairly good at that. What kept my rating from being higher than a seven is that CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is really good at what it does. The rating is not higher than that mainly because of the cost. The licensing fees are quite expensive, and in order to justify the use, you need to have a large number of integrated systems to justify that cost. Otherwise, it does not work financially.
SunilPatil1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asset Builder at Genpact - Headstrong
Have prioritized security while managing multi-agent data migration and cloud adoption
We utilize Time Travel with Snowflake because this is a very useful feature. Everyone finds it crucial because in conventional data platforms, it's very difficult to handle these kinds of things. This feature is essential, though I don't have the use cases currently; it is just there for implementation. Regarding Snowflake's automated scaling and suspension features, this auto-scaling is very significant. We had a comparison with Databricks and Snowflake a few months back, and this auto-scaling takes an edge within Snowflake; that's what our observation reflects.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Since we started using CData AWS Glue Data Connectors, we have seen about a 20% increase in product delivery speed."
"From a user's standpoint, it is a good product."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Snowflake has improved our organization by powering company-wide dashboards that functions use to understand and manage their business."
"It helped us to build MVP (minimum viable product) for our idea of building a data warehouse model for small businesses."
"The biggest advantage of Snowflake Data Cloud is that we can use it for querying, and it is serverless."
"The solution speeds up the process of onboarding."
"The most valuable feature is the clone copy."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is its performance. We can access the data quickly. Additionally, it handles structured and non-structured data."
 

Cons

"I think the biggest drawback for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is the cost."
"I see room for improvement when it comes to credit performance. The other thing I'd like to be improved is the warehouse facility."
"Snowflake is expensive, but when I consider what we get for that price, it's fair."
"In a future release we would like to have a link which would allow us to connect to an external database and create certain views in your own database. This is because it is becoming hard for us to compare the data between multiple sources."
"The current API is very limited and difficult to configure."
"Snowflake wasn't cheaper than BigQuery, and its affordability was the main issue."
"Snowflake has to build more capabilities because they have only built very few adapters, but they're growing and they're building."
"The documentation might not be very straightforward; these are all the negative parts that we can see."
"The documentation could improve. They should provide architecture information."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Oracle is less expensive than Snowflake."
"There is a separation of storage and compute, so you only pay for what you use."
"It's expensive."
"There is a license needed to use this solution. There are a few licensing options available. They have a pay-as-you-go option, but it is recommended to pay upfront."
"The pricing for Snowflake is competitive."
"We use Snowflake pretty heavily. We pay a significant amount of money for the tool. I'd say we pay $300k to $400K every year."
"I have worked with multiple clouds, and cost-wise, it is a bit costlier than others, such as Redshift. Its price should be reduced."
"The pricing is economical as compared to traditional solutions like Oracle and competitive pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
34%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors?
Since we started using CData AWS Glue Data Connectors, we have seen about a 20% increase in product delivery speed. Usually the time spent on creating connectors and trying to fashion custom-made c...
What needs improvement with CData AWS Glue Data Connectors?
I think the biggest drawback for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors is the cost. For a small organization, the licensing fee may exceed the cost of just building a few custom integrations. If you do no...
What is your primary use case for CData AWS Glue Data Connectors?
We use CData AWS Glue Data Connectors for our machine learning pipelines on AWS, and we have attempted to use it for building data lakes as well. CData AWS Glue Data Connectors has been instrumenta...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?
We find the metering and billing experience for Snowflake to be expensive because there are many limitations to what it can do. When we compared performance-wise and cost-wise to Bedrock for some o...
What needs improvement with Snowflake?
Lessons learned about our main use case or how Snowflake performed in those areas include that the sales representatives do not really understand the product, and that the solutions consultants bas...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
Our main use case for Snowflake was to ingest data, use it for search, analytics, and data sharing with our customers; however, in reality, those use cases did not work. When it came to our challen...
 

Also Known As

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Snowflake Computing, Snowflake Data Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

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Accordant Media, Adobe, Kixeye Inc., Revana, SOASTA, White Ops
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