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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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?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
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Feature Ratings
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Workload Management and Monitoring
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Data Security
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Metadata Management
Platform Administration
Real Time Capabilities
Analytics and Data Science Tools
Data Visualization
Analytics and Reporting
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Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
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Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
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Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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Snowflake Reviews
Harshini H.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2021
Easy to use and the features are amazing!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake has the ability to separate the storage and compute. This is very unique about snowflake. It is also hosted on a cloud which helps tremendously with scalability.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake is really fast and it can easily handle large volumes of data. It also has some special features. Loading processes will be improved. It also interfaces easily with AWS. It is also easy to work with structured and unstructured data sets.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is a web-based tool. A desktop tool would be good to use. The database navigation can also be smoother. The updates on the functionality should be notified to the user.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Overall Snowflake is a good data management tool which is very to use. It has amazing ability to work with structured and unstructured data. Sure shot tool for every organization to use. It is also easy for the customers to scale as their needs keep changing.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Akshya a.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2021
It is a core to our Data Hub
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Separation of storage and compute make it so simple to manage capacity and ensure fast response times for all warehouse workloads.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We can have analysts on one warehouse, another warehouse servicing our API, and yet another one to serve up customer dashboards, all working on the same data without affecting the response times of each other.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to mention about this.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Once you see the utility and power of how it works, you won't go back.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
Harish J.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2021
Brilliant cloud Database
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
With its clever algorithms snowflake offers a faster way of querying and fetching data from the cloud databases
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is very scalable and friendly to use. It supports JSON and XML which few tools miss out.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It require a bit of a learning curve
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Although Snowflake is relatively new it is a very good tool for hosting the databases over the cloud
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
