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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

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?

When ownership transferred on any Object, other grants should not revoked.

Pros

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

Amit S.

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

Submitted Nov 2023

Extremely intuitive and easy to use query

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

1. Storage Capacity 2. Multi-Cloud

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Server Capacity Security

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of support for unstructured data: Snowflake currently only caters to structured and semi-structured data. This may however change in the future to include unstructured data.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go through the online tutorials to learn more about it

Pros

  • Inspires Innovation
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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