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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

Aaron S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Easy to set up, and constantly innovating.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake is multi-cloud, so you are not locked into any individual provider. They provide better ANSI SQL support than any other solution (including Redshift and Spark). They integrate well with other big data products (we used Snowflake in conjunction with Spark). Snowflake is moving in the real-time direction (as seen by features like Snow Pipe and the Kafka connector), and is just doing a great job at keeping up (and staying ahead) of the market in general.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We only paid for what we used, as opposed to paying for a constantly-running Redshift cluster. We were a small shop, so price was crucial to us, and Snowflake came out on top in our PoVs.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Their UI was not the best when I worked with them, but they have since acquired a UI company.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Be sure to take the time to understand the pricing model (warehouse sizes, minimum warehouse runtime, price for storage, etc.) so you don't get caught off guard.

Pros

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

Kumar B.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Healthcare
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Easy to use, and a fantastic product overall!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake is a leader in data and analytics. It provides many features that competitors do not provide such as time-travel back to a snapshot.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Time-travel feature is my personal favorite because it allows me to go back in time to my data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike! Great warehousing tool and awesome integrations.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Identify your priorities with a warehousing or analytics solution. This helped us figure out how to best use Snowflake. Snowflake has an abundance of new features, so easy to get lost.

Pros

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

Ausrine S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

A real game-changer for data warehousing!

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

What differentiates Snowflake is the fact that the data warehousing solution it offers is data agnostic and enables a complete end-to-end consolidation of all data products in a single scalable product. Snowflake also stands out as being one of the most affordable options out there, enabling both small and large organizations to aggregate and leverage their data for analytics and decision making.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Auto Suspend is my favorite feature of Snowflake because it allows me to set an hourly limit to how much I want to spend for data warehousing. Uploading data into Snowflake is a fast and straightforward process with only 2 clicks needed. The data loading times are fast and it's available to be used immediately. Worksheets in Snowflake enable me to quickly pull relevant data into a table using SQL which can then be used for data analysis and reporting.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The UI could be updated so to a bit more modern and user-friendly, but otherwise, I have nothing that I dislike about the product!

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For those looking for a data warehousing solution, I would highly recommend giving Snowflake a try and discover all of its functionalities!

Pros

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

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