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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

John H.

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

Submitted Aug 2023

Great Product, but Beware Cost

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Incredible features, fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

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

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

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