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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Feature Ratings
Data Management
Workload Management and Monitoring
Distributed Processing
Data Security
Data Integration
Metadata Management
Platform Administration
Real Time Capabilities
Analytics and Data Science Tools
Data Visualization
Analytics and Reporting
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
Snowflake Reviews
Amit S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Extremely intuitive and easy to use query
Likeliness to Recommend
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
John H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2023
Great Product, but Beware Cost
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake is very powerful and very easy to use. Its SQL dialect is very flexible, and the kinds of integrations it supports is really impressive.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake SQL is a delight to work with.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Snowflake can be very expensive, and requires a significant level of governance to ensure that costs are kept under control. I found it much easier to control BigQuery costs.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Start small -- e.g., smallest warehouses with low query timeouts -- and expand as needed. Keep costs in focus.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Less Generous
- Under Delivered
- Less Friendly Negotiation
Fabiana Eloisa R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2023
Incredible features, fantastic product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
I think Snowflake is very powerful, it has a lot of capabilities and all the data is on the cloud. I strongly recommend it, you can create the datawarehouse architecture in different ways and test what is the best solution to store and integrate your data. Snowflake has a good and complete API documentation.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I really loved that thanks to Snowflake, with the data team we could implement a DataWarehouse Architecture and connect data from different sources using Fivetran. And we really got excellent results, improving the queries performance, and creating more robust queries using views and tables. Also there exists Snowflake Connector for Python and that is really great if you need to implement a function.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It would be great that Snowflake Sales People being more trainned about specific uses and questions about using Snowflake.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recomend having the POC calls with Snowflake People and test the product before decide to pay and use the product with your team. Compare it with other similar tools looks like Databricks, evaluate pros and cons.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
