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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

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

Duncan H.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Really great for concurrency!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Even comparing to other cloud databases, Snowflake is still faster with a comparable price point.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Being able to spin generate more performance on demand.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I can't think of anything negative

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you have enormous amounts of data, Snowflake will make it easier

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Inspires Innovation

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