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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Snowflake Reviews
Daniel P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2024
Data management and analysis in the cloud.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake's unique architecture makes data management and processing easy. Its user interface is intuitive and reliable. The platform enables real-time data sharing within a business ecosystem without the need to copy or move data sets. Query execution is extremely fast and caching can be managed to optimize performance.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake is highly scalable and has very good performance. Designed specifically for the cloud, its architecture separates processing from storage, allowing both to scale independently. This allows us to handle large volumes of data without worrying about infrastructure or performance degradation.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Their pricing structure can be high, especially for smaller businesses or those with limited budgets.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Snowflake is an excellent choice for businesses looking for a robust and flexible solution for cloud data management and analysis, enabling efficient scaling and optimal performance without compromising simplicity of use.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Étienne D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2024
Snowflake is the best analytics database.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake has remarkable speed and ability to handle massive volumes of data. It manages concurrency in our tests better than other premium competitors, and the cloud-based technical architecture gives us significant advantages over other offerings, including the critical ability to segment usage patterns and scale reliably.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake is a great tool for connecting multiple data sources. It has a SQL-based approach that makes it easy to manage and query data lakes. Its cloud-native setup ensures everything works as it should. Therefore, even with large data workloads, we can rely on optimal performance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Inexperienced team members may find the user interface a little overwhelming at first.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Snowflake is a very fast and easy to maintain cloud-based storage solution. It provides the best infrastructure to store, manage, use and analyze data. It is ideal for companies that are growing at a really fast pace.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Neha B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2024
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Caring