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
98 Plan to Renew
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82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 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
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Snowflake Reviews
Katia D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
Cloud storage solution.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
This platform has various data formats, which facilitates the storage and processing of data. Other data storage systems only support specific data formats. On the other hand, it is a fully cloud-based platform, while other data storage systems are traditionally server-based. In addition, it provides us with a unique data storage architecture, which allows efficient and scalable data storage and processing. By comparison, other traditional data storage systems are less flexible and scalable.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
This system features optimized data storage, allowing you to save data without having to worry about configuration settings. While it is extremely scalable and can be easily adjusted as needed. This allows users to increase storage, processing speed, and resources as needed. Maintains excellent security for stored data. This includes authentication, encryption, access control, and monitoring.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One of the great challenges that our company presents is that this system keeps all the data in the cloud, which means that the data is subject to hacker attacks. It also offers usage-based pricing plans, so storage costs can be very high. Also, it does not provide technical support for users, which means that users must have technical knowledge to properly administer the system.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This platform is designed to help companies harness the power of the cloud to improve the scalability, security, and flexibility of their data systems. This system provides scalability and easy management, which allows us to obtain information from our data quickly and accurately. It also provides advanced security tools to help companies keep their data systems secure. These features make Snowflake a great choice for businesses looking for a secure, scalable, and easy-to-use cloud database solution.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Madhankkumar S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Snowflake - Best solution to build your EDW !
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
The data distribution with in the database is being taken care on it own , you don't need a database administrator for most of the things since it came to us as a product feature.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1) data distribution 2) cache the data 3) various custom functions to play with.
What do you dislike most about this product?
1) Can have a dedicated scheduler UI for task . 2) Enable custom python code for more customization.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Go for it ! Server less scalable architecture is the future !
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Dinesh B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2023
Snowflake: Best Database for Analytics
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Very minimal configuration needed and highly efficient
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Performance of query. Huge volume of data getting pulled in seconds
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost is slightly high
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great DB for analytics and huge volume of data.
Pros
- Reliable
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
