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.
Company Details
Need Assistance?
We're here to help you with understanding our reports and the data inside to help you make decisions.
Get AssistanceSnowflake Ratings
Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard
to access more information on Snowflake.
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
98 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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.
+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
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
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.
Footprint
Negative
Neutral
Positive
Feature Ratings
Data Management
Data Security
Platform Administration
Workload Management and Monitoring
Data Integration
Distributed Processing
Metadata Management
Real Time Capabilities
Analytics and Reporting
Analytics and Data Science Tools
Data Visualization
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Snowflake Reviews
Roshni R.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2022
Snowflake is an all-in-one data platform.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake offered excellent scalability as well as reliable data security. It has storage capabilities that make it stand out from the rest of the pack. All of the tabs on which I had my attention were intuitively organized, to my delight. It was simple to scale because the virtual warehouse and compute resources are separate. Because it adheres to the SQL dialect, it was simple to write queries.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake has a simple user interface and is easy to operate. It has been observed that we have made significant improvements in our ability to deliver large-scale data analyses. Snowflake is software that is constantly evolving, and we can interface with it using various tools. In most workloads, it is dependable and reasonably fast; it also offers cost control due to the separation of computing and storage. In addition, the tool role hierarchy provides flexibility while maintaining a hierarchy.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Snowflake is not cost-effective because it charges for the time a warehouse is on and used for analysis or any other purpose. Unstructured data capability had been on my wish list due to the limited and semi-structured data available. Even the setup is more complicated than the actual use.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Snowflake—go for it! It can be an incredible experience when you move your data to the cloud! Consider all of their options and technologies before making a decision.
Pros
- Inspires Innovation
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2022
Reasonable feature
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Client Friendly Policies
Mufiati D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2022
Snowflake - Best Software For Business Big Data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
What makes Snowflake different the rest of tools in it's category is the global availability and the fact that a business can move data to any cloud globally.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The fact Snowflake supports multi-cloud strategy is a plus for businesses. I like that Snowflake is found on both AWS, Microsoft, and Google cloud. Thanks to code interchange capabilities, data replication is easy. Moving data to a different cloud anywhere doesn't require recoding.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Snowflake is all great except using it requires training.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For business big data management, Snowflake is the magic you need. It's available in all platforms and you can move your cloud data globally.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
