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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

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

Michael S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2021

Scalable big data and integration for any business

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake provides web-based easy management tools and big data capability that is unparalleled in the industry. The competitors I have seen have extremely complicated setups that require a lot of training. My team had a couple hours of training, and we were off and running and have built an entire BI and Analytics team around the product.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The truly scalable nature of the product allows any size organization to get access to industry-leading technology at a scaled price. My company is a fairly small higher education institution, and because we only pay for what we use, we are able to get the absolute best database platform without having huge licensing fees or hardware/software infrastructure.

What do you dislike most about this product?

We are on the east coast, and Snowflake releases all of the update to the west cost LONG before the east coast can have access. It's sometimes months before we can use new features that others can use.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You should absolutely proceed. It's very easy to set up an account and just try it for little or no cost. If you know any SQL at all, you can be up and running very quickly.

Pros

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

Cons

  • Vendor Friendly Policies
  • Less Efficient Service
  • Security Frustrates

Rakesh K.

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

Submitted Mar 2021

Easy, Smooth & Show Fast results

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

It helps the user to extract the data fast & in a very smooth manner

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Smooth function & quick results

What do you dislike most about this product?

For now, at least, I don't see any negative aspect

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If your organization is Midsize & expanding then you can definitely choose this as per your Budget.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

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