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Snowflake Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform designed to efficiently store, process, and analyze large volumes of data. It stands out for its ability to scale computing and storage resources independently, allowing users to manage data and analytics workloads more flexibly. With its unique architecture, Snowflake facilitates seamless data sharing among users, enabling collaborative data-driven decision-making. It supports various data structures and types, including structured and semi-structured data, making it a versatile choice for organizations looking to harness the power of their data.
| Capabilities |
AI
API
CLI
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|---|---|
| Ease of use |
Intermediate
Advanced
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Snowflake Pros and Cons
- Multi-cloud support across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- Separation of compute and storage for scalable, on-demand analytics
- Native support for semi-structured data formats like JSON and Avro
- Secure data sharing without moving or copying data
- Pay-per-second pricing model for cost optimization
- Advanced capabilities might be excessive for small businesses with limited data needs
- Potential for increased costs with high data storage and compute usage
- Learning curve for users unfamiliar with cloud-based data platforms
- Dependence on internet connectivity for accessing the platform
- Limited offline capabilities
The content and the flexibility and pricing for this products I like most.
I did not see any dislike about snowflake
Current project replaced hive and redshift and introducing Snowflake.
The fact storage and processing power are separated is so powerful, the cloning and time travel features are incredibly useful also.
The UI could do with improving, however there are tools like DBeaver that sit on top that solve this issue.
Migrating on prem SQLServer to the cloud, this has sped up all queries as storage isn't slowing them down as well as reducing costs
1. Speed of the query execution and updating the query 2. Data migration 3. Data security 4. Data uploading
Nothing as such I think this is perfect mindpiece.
Speed of query execution and ease of data loading
Snowflake is part of the modern BI stack, there are lot of inbuilt functionalities that makes complex data warehousing problems simple
The UI can be little more better compared with other warehousing tools such as Redshift , bigquery
Store data in a organised format for analytics user to easily consume and make best use of the data
The ability to easily query data and go through schemas
I think Snowflake is amazingly fast and easy to use.
Querying Data
Snowflake is highly scalable. The interface provided by snowflake is very comfortable to use. The query rofiles give very important insights.
There are still some internal errors which frequently come so the environment is not very stable as yet. PLSQL stored procedures are not yet provided.
We are replacing the existing enterprise database with snowflake to achieve scalability in analysis.
Easy to use and easy to learn without even prior knowledge to warehouse
Need to understand how it is configured with other tools
Connecting DB
Powerful and feature rich data platform for industry with compliance needs. Continuous innovations with new features such as Snowsight and Snowpark.
Flexibility to select compute type for running data science models in Snowpark such as compute with GPU.
Building analytics layer for BI and ad hoc analytics and support for Data Science use cases.
This product is great and definitely is something that I would highly recommend to other companies. I feel that their support is great and it is something that has made our company able to manage our data more effectively at this time. I feel that in a pandemic situation we were able to share and analyze our data more efficiently with Snowflake and do this remotely at times which helped us not interrupt the flow of business at this time.
Nothing - This product was great and has worked well for us. We have not had any major problems and if we experience any issues support is ready to help us very quickly.
We had problems with our data management system and trying to manage large amounts of data with different tools in the past. We got Snowlfake and it has helped us manage our data in a more efficient manner and has helped us better with our workflow at this time.
Snowflake has allowed us to streamline the most important pieces of information from our production databases to organize and visualize them in a way that is accessible to our entire organization. As a manager working cross functionally Snowflake has helped me answer technical questions about our schema without assistance from a tech lead while helping me organize my marketing analytics and insights for both internal and external products. The SQL writer is so easy to use and the ability to connect to so many disparate data sources in one place is an incredible value add to our DaaS and reporting.
I've found that it's easier to update account settings using SQL than from the GUI. This has caused confusion for less technical stakeholders on my team (finance, etc.). In general these areas could use some TLC to be more accessible. It would also be helpful to have clearer financial breakdowns of usage.
Helping the org make data driven decisions, getting database views and access without setting someone up on postgres and without risk to our production db, creating models of synthesized data in our BI tool. Wouldn't be possible without Snowflake!