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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

Stuart H.

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

Submitted Mar 2021

It just works!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Innovations that leverage the cloud and differentiate it from eg Redshift

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of use

What do you dislike most about this product?

Relative cost, esp for smaller organisations

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Cons

  • Less Efficient Service
  • Less Generous
  • Under Delivered
  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Easy to use, well priced, fantastic features

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

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

Jacob B.

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

Submitted Mar 2021

Easy to use, flexible and isolated workloads

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product, easy to use,manage, maintain. Snowflake is unique architecture from other data warehouse products. The architecture provides better design to meet the better performance by its flexible and isolated workloads. The architecture, its three layers (database storage, query processing, cloud services) provides a unique purpose, easily scalable, and easily maintainable. Thus, I would say, Snowflake’s architecture is a hybrid of traditional shared-disk database architectures and shared-nothing database architectures. Snowflake built on the cloud to tackled limitations of legacy data warehouses.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of the product is creating and managing virtual warehouses to meet different workloads. This provides an isolated workload and capacity (Virtual warehouse ). This allows separating or categorizing workloads and query processing according to our requirements. The snowflake database is managed by the snowflake team. This simplifies the DBA job from maintenance kinds of tasks such as patchworks and regular upgrades. Snowflake provides a unique architecture that supports structured and semi-structured data. provides the ready-made solutions to process with the semi-structured data such as JSON, Avro, ORC, Parquet, and XML

What do you dislike most about this product?

Snowflake provides Virtual warehouses for having performance. however, it may cost more.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Snowflake is best for a data warehouse. When you want to compute capacities separately to manage the workloads independently, Snowflake is the best option, because it provides isolated virtual warehouses.

Pros

  • Fair
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable

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