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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

Vatsal G.

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

Submitted Nov 2023

Great Data Warehouse Capabilities, Expensive

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

ITs ability to perform queries fast and efficiently makes the tool versatile for data warehouse.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1) IAM 2) Query Execution 3) Data Security

What do you dislike most about this product?

It can be an expensive tool if not managed well.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The platform is great for data warehousing, fast and efficient. They always try to improve the query experience and come up with new features.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Viral G.

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

Submitted Nov 2023

Easy to use but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Its ability to execute queries fast like no other data warehouse has.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Simple syntax and industry leading software stability. We processed close to a billions of raw and it was better than almost all of the other alternatives.

What do you dislike most about this product?

cost: its a bit expensive

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

pricey but worth the money so if you have deep pockets and you want reliable data warehouse, snowflake is a great choice.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Caring

Ravi K.

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

Submitted Nov 2023

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Time travel, RBAC, Fail safe, separation of storage and compute cost, Auto clustering

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Time travel, RBAC, Fail safe, Parallel processing, warehouse auto scaling, separation of storage and compute cost, clustering, Data Security and Governance.

What do you dislike most about this product?

no fully supportive of SQL Stored procedures, and compute cost.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

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Pros

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

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