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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

ABID HUSSAIN A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Healthcare
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Easy to use, but a bit pricey

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Ease of use and its performance are main reasons

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

independent storage with Scalability

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price variability or no fix price

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Snowflake take care of all management I like recommend it to others for peace of mind

Pros

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

David W.

  • Role: C-Level
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

The data platform that lets you focus on delivery

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

Snowflake is significantly different in its concept of warehouses and the separation of compute from data. Instead of sizing your machine to do everything you need, you have many independent warehouses of different sizes of CPU and RAM which are used for different workloads. You make the warehouse suit the workload, and these can all run at the same time or independently, based on what people need to do. There's no need for a 'one size fits all' situation., Have a big warehouse for your infrequent but intensive loads, and a small one for your frequent activities like data ingestion.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The role-based security allows us to efficiently set up environments where people have access to some features or others, but all based on roles - as it should be - not an array of independent individual permissions. Also, the row-based security / data masking is excellent, and so too is data sharing.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The cost for enterprise features can be high if you aren't carefully monitoring your usage and sizing your warehouses appropriately.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Consider what you want to achieve, carefully. Be sure to break up your workloads into appropriately-sized warehouses. Set up warehouse monitors/alerts to help you track spending. Also, consider having two accounts - a standard one to hold your data and for data loading - at standard pricing - and an enterprise one that works on the data, with all the enterprise features at enterprise pricing. This way you're not paying enterprise pricing for the general data management. Additionally, take advantage of the built-in security features to manage data access right at the database level no matter if people connect via the GUI or an app.

Pros

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

Cons

  • Vendor Friendly Policies

Ajay C.

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

Submitted Jun 2023

Fantastic product with amazing features

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?

The pay as you use concept has helped us save a lot of money in terms of infrastructure. And I am surprised with the speed of the data warehouse since we are using big data for our data analytics needs snowflake has surprised us in the performance of the data base. It has been an amazing experience. I would recommend anyone to use snowflake who want to move to a modern data stack.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data sharing , ease of data warehouse , high performance, pay as you go concept

What do you dislike most about this product?

None , it is an exceptional product with amazing features

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Amazing product

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

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