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Snowflake

Snowflake

8.8 /10
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Snowflake
8.8 /10

What is Snowflake?

Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.

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Awards & Recognition

Snowflake won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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89 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Snowflake?

0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Data Management

86

Workload Management and Monitoring

84

Distributed Processing

83

Data Security

82

Data Integration

82

Metadata Management

80

Platform Administration

79

Real Time Capabilities

79

Analytics and Data Science Tools

77

Data Visualization

75

Analytics and Reporting

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

85

Ease of Data Integration

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Business Value Created

83

Quality of Features

82

Ease of IT Administration

82

Ease of Customization

81

Vendor Support

80

Breadth of Features

80

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Availability and Quality of Training

79

Snowflake Reviews

Chris M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Fantastic platform for cloud-based data warehouses

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

To increase the effectiveness of business operations, to become more customer-centric, and make it simpler to comply with laws compared to other databases I've come to know, all of them can be accomplished more quickly, and more efficiently.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I appreciate the strength and versatility of Snowflake as well as its appealing user interface. In addition to being a database with SQL and all the usual features, it offers outstanding capabilities for sharing and access control. For example, we have created row-access policies that only provide clients access to their data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

To become familiar with snowflake queries and structure, training is required. The extracting procedure requires specialized skills due to its unique syntax. The table constructions of Snowflake may have some intricate elements. Not every user will have access to all of the tables in Snowflake because different roles place varying limitations on the table objects.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With Snowflake's easy integration, we were able to quickly move data from our third-party apps. It works swiftly and efficiently, saving us time while improving the quality of our work and lowering costs and time waste. I personally advise you to do this.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Brandon L.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

Immensely useful and modular solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake has boosted the financial performance of our business. Modern workloads for our data and data applications are completely supported by Snowflake that is why I use and trust it fully. Snowflake allows us to maximize the value of our data. This excellent bug data tool focuses on boosting our productivity, scaling to our requirements, and properly examining our data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We are satisfied to utilize Snowflake Platform which requires a very low amount of administration overhead to combine, integrate, analyze, and distribute our previously segregated data while providing nearly infinite scalability and performance. It is incredibly user-friendly and the entire process of setting up was really wonderful. It processes queries incredibly quickly that is why I like it and use it daily.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes the server or the implementation portion isn't functioning properly; typically, the Snowflake side is where the problem lies and hugely affects our working. The extracting procedure requires specialized knowledge due to its unique syntax.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It maintains various warehouses and enables very quick querying because the memory and computation are segregated. One should just migrate to the cloud, and Snowflake is a good option. Because of simpler migrations, tighter security, higher speed, and price, users can transfer the data to Snowflake. If you do choose to relocate to Cloud, Snowflake is unbeatable!

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Alice M.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

Overall user-friendliness is incredible

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Because this tool gave us the freedom to create our own data framework in accordance with our business needs and wants, we were able to achieve great flexibility for our data management with Snowflake. I really love it because it allows us to save a ton of money and time while streamlining big data management to become more and simpler.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With the aid of this fantastic DM big data approach, we can now browse and safely exchange live, controlled data within our corporation, with clients, partners, and any other company that gives us the confidence to also use it in the future. It offers a variety of built-in security features for cloud data, such as always-on encryption for data in storage or movement. Snowflake accomplished what we set out to do.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is expensive, therefore, the least amount of compute power and, consequently, the least expensive option will be more welcoming but because of its features and capacity, we can bear the costs. To become familiar with snowflake patterns and architecture, training is required.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It does numerous tasks simultaneously and does a great job of maintaining data security. It contains a very useful time-travel feature that enables you to return to a prior phase of your data. To increase the effectiveness of business processes, become more customer-centric, and make it simpler to comply with laws, is a fantastic approach, you can simply move to it!

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity

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