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Snowflake

Snowflake

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
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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Snowflake Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Data Management

87

Workload Management and Monitoring

85

Distributed Processing

84

Data Security

84

Data Integration

82

Platform Administration

81

Metadata Management

80

Real Time Capabilities

80

Analytics and Data Science Tools

78

Data Visualization

77

Analytics and Reporting

76

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

83

Ease of IT Administration

82

Ease of Customization

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Vendor Support

80

Breadth of Features

80

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Snowflake Reviews

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2021

Nice product with good feature set

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

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

Hady N.

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

Submitted Jun 2021

With capacity to handle several columns.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake is a complete SQL data warehouse, built from the ground up for the cloud, its architecture is what differentiates it from other platforms, it offers the flexibility and efficiency that is simply not possible with a traditional data warehouse or a big data platform that is has moved to the cloud.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like Snowflake it is fast, flexible and simple to use, useful for managing all aspects of authentication, configuration, resource management, data protection, optimization and availability and as a user you just need to register, upload your data and get started to make inquiries.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Honestly Snowflake, it is expensive for a lot of storage.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend Snowflake for managing organization, file size, structure, compression, metadata, statistics, and other aspects of data storage.

Pros

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

Ngaafare R.

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

Submitted Jun 2021

Great Analytic features guaranteed

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

It allows multiple, independent compute resources to have access to the same database hence the means can have an unlimited number of concurrent workloads against the same single copy of data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cloning whereby Snowflake is able to copy massive databases quickly. More so it is cost-effective and offers massive benefits for DevOps scenarios. Data sharing and the Snowflake Data Marketplace where I'm able to pull in curated data sets from the Snowflake Data Marketplace and also have the ability to securely share data with my partners seamlessly. Time travel whereby I'm able to query back in time, which is useful for troubleshooting data and removing data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The ODBC does not accommodate multiple roles.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a great product with very handy data analytic tools.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Inspires Innovation

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