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
99 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
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.
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Feature Ratings
Data Management
Workload Management and Monitoring
Distributed Processing
Data Security
Data Integration
Platform Administration
Metadata Management
Real Time Capabilities
Analytics and Data Science Tools
Data Visualization
Analytics and Reporting
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Snowflake Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2021
Nice product with good feature set
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Hady N.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
With capacity to handle several columns.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake is a complete SQL data warehouse, built from the ground up for the cloud, its architecture is what differentiates it from other platforms, it offers the flexibility and efficiency that is simply not possible with a traditional data warehouse or a big data platform that is has moved to the cloud.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like Snowflake it is fast, flexible and simple to use, useful for managing all aspects of authentication, configuration, resource management, data protection, optimization and availability and as a user you just need to register, upload your data and get started to make inquiries.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Honestly Snowflake, it is expensive for a lot of storage.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend Snowflake for managing organization, file size, structure, compression, metadata, statistics, and other aspects of data storage.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Ngaafare R.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
Great Analytic features guaranteed
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
It allows multiple, independent compute resources to have access to the same database hence the means can have an unlimited number of concurrent workloads against the same single copy of data.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloning whereby Snowflake is able to copy massive databases quickly. More so it is cost-effective and offers massive benefits for DevOps scenarios. Data sharing and the Snowflake Data Marketplace where I'm able to pull in curated data sets from the Snowflake Data Marketplace and also have the ability to securely share data with my partners seamlessly. Time travel whereby I'm able to query back in time, which is useful for troubleshooting data and removing data.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The ODBC does not accommodate multiple roles.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is a great product with very handy data analytic tools.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
