
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
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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Snowflake Reviews

Jinrong A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
To monitor and improve data structures.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
With Snowflake, remote communication and decision-making are quick and easy because to a single common data source. Snowflake improves data security, availability, and resiliency, and simplifies automated data management. You can collaborate with vendors, staff members, and business partners using Snowflake to create a private platform and share data. Snowflake automates critical procedures, including data security, infrastructure, availability, and optimization.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like Snowflake to drive data loads, perform analytics, and collect important data that helps me make faster, wiser business decisions. I can also handle data processing workloads of any size and a wide range of data types, whether they come from artificial or traditional sources. I can acquire real-time information, develop business insights, and evaluate data without bottlenecks. Without having to recode the programs that use the data, I can duplicate it and stream it anywhere.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Unstructured data in Snowflake is difficult to explore and review. The consultations can occasionally take a very long time for Snowflake to finish.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend the advantages and solutions that Snowflake offers include: Contributes to cost optimization. Downtime can be reduced. Improves operational efficiency. Enables fast, automated recovery of data replication.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Chris M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
Fantastic platform for cloud-based data warehouses
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
To increase the effectiveness of business operations, to become more customer-centric, and make it simpler to comply with laws compared to other databases I've come to know, all of them can be accomplished more quickly, and more efficiently.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I appreciate the strength and versatility of Snowflake as well as its appealing user interface. In addition to being a database with SQL and all the usual features, it offers outstanding capabilities for sharing and access control. For example, we have created row-access policies that only provide clients access to their data.
What do you dislike most about this product?
To become familiar with snowflake queries and structure, training is required. The extracting procedure requires specialized skills due to its unique syntax. The table constructions of Snowflake may have some intricate elements. Not every user will have access to all of the tables in Snowflake because different roles place varying limitations on the table objects.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
With Snowflake's easy integration, we were able to quickly move data from our third-party apps. It works swiftly and efficiently, saving us time while improving the quality of our work and lowering costs and time waste. I personally advise you to do this.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy

Brandon L.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2022
Immensely useful and modular solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake has boosted the financial performance of our business. Modern workloads for our data and data applications are completely supported by Snowflake that is why I use and trust it fully. Snowflake allows us to maximize the value of our data. This excellent bug data tool focuses on boosting our productivity, scaling to our requirements, and properly examining our data.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We are satisfied to utilize Snowflake Platform which requires a very low amount of administration overhead to combine, integrate, analyze, and distribute our previously segregated data while providing nearly infinite scalability and performance. It is incredibly user-friendly and the entire process of setting up was really wonderful. It processes queries incredibly quickly that is why I like it and use it daily.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes the server or the implementation portion isn't functioning properly; typically, the Snowflake side is where the problem lies and hugely affects our working. The extracting procedure requires specialized knowledge due to its unique syntax.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It maintains various warehouses and enables very quick querying because the memory and computation are segregated. One should just migrate to the cloud, and Snowflake is a good option. Because of simpler migrations, tighter security, higher speed, and price, users can transfer the data to Snowflake. If you do choose to relocate to Cloud, Snowflake is unbeatable!
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing