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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Data Visualization
Analytics and Reporting
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Snowflake Reviews
Raghwendra S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2024
Amazing Data warehousing tool for all cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake scales better than other cloud manager data warehousing tool. The pricing model is separate for compute and object store can be used as storage .
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake works well with all the major clouds and snowflake has good offerings for machine learning with offerings like Snowpark ML which allows you to build and deploy ML models.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The snowflake ui is difficult to get used to , the classic console is easier to keep the most used queries right in the front. The cost can be high if data used is very high , this is a challenge where every user is able to query any volume of data and high number of queries are executed every day
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If your data warehouse consists of data warehouse with preaggregated tables , and you want to build a fast data visulations then using snowflake is one of the best decisions as it will give you very fast performance with keeping the cost also in control as raw data scans will be lower
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Altruistic
- Generous Negotitation
- Includes Product Enhancements
Shiv Dutt S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2024
Cloud computing based Best data warehouse tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Cloud based data warehousing tool. capable to process huge volume of data and complex calculations. provide features such as safe fail, role based access. Automatically manage all part of data storage process. Easy integration with different BI reporting tools as power BI, Qlik, TCRM etc.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Unique capabilities FOR DATA recovery, Safe fail for data recovery. separation of storage and computation. Dynamic scaling of servers,
What do you dislike most about this product?
Unstructured data is not supported, in snowflake, Also data model need to build in optimized way else cost could be even more compare to other tools (Redshift).
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
provide a single platform for datwarehousing, data lake, data engineering.. Able to process huge volume and complex data model. Multiple layers can be created to maintain EDW and ETL layers.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
Vatsal G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2023
Easy to use, but a bit pricey
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Their query processing ability is great. Can process hundreds of millions of rows very efficiently.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Their UI is easy to understand. It also autosave the query so that you won't lose it. It works well and integrate with other tools well. It also has an advanced security.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost. It is a bit pricey.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you want reliable, fast and secure data warehouse and you are ok paying top dollar, this is where your search for data warehouse should end.
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Caring
- Client Friendly Policies
- Altruistic
