About Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that can enable critical data workloads and secure collaboration. This solution can be used to run data across multiple regions for a single, unified experience across a business ecosystem. Using a multi-cluster shared data architecture, Snowflake provides access to the same data without affecting business performance. The platform can scale to any volume of data and number of users.
Snowflake provides real-time data that can be distributed across business units and other stakeholders without the need to copy, move, or make changes to existing data sets. With built-in security features, Snowflake allows access to be controlled and monitored. Other features include data discovery enablement, personalized views, access request workflows, and more. Additionally, this solution integrates with many third-party solutions including data management and data analytics platforms.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Snowflake has been a game changer
Reviewed on 23/11/2021
Snowflake has been a game changer for us. It has enable all kinds of new architectures due to it's...
Snowflake has been a game changer for us. It has enable all kinds of new architectures due to it's fast and low-cost performance. It has eliminated the need for so many maintenance tasks that used to be such a hassle.
Pros
Snowflake is super fast, requires virtually no maintenance (no logs, indexes, tuning, etc.) and the pay per use price model scales perfectly with cyclical workloads which are common in data warehouse applications.
Cons
It does not natively support any real constraints such as uniqueness or referential integrity which requires the user to explicitly check all these things via stored procedures. The SQL worksheet GUI still has remove to improve but they have been rapidly enhancing it. It's not too uncommon to have brief outages but they are usually resolved within a few hours.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A fantastic data warehouse solution that solved all our problems
Reviewed on 05/05/2022
I have an amazing experience using Snowflake. It is better than out previous Data Warehouse...
I have an amazing experience using Snowflake. It is better than out previous Data Warehouse solution in everything I can think of (besides pricing). We are very satisfied with, and I feel very confident on having it as the backend of all our data needs.
It is also important to notice that we had a very pleasent experience with Snowflake's sales and account managers: they were very helpful and not pushy at all.
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Snowflake is exteremely stable and easy to setup. I was able to turn it on and have a reliable Data Warehouse that didn't require me having a lot of cloud knowledge to administrate.
The database administration through the UI is intuitive and the Roles dynamic helps with implementing good data governance and compliance pratics inside the company.
Snowflake also offers user security options out of the box, which was a huge improvement for us. The doccumentation is very well written and SnowSQL offest a lot of useful functions. The main improvement on this front was how Snowflake treats JSON, which helped us a lot.
Cons
If your revenue is not on US dollars, Snowflake is an expensive product, there is no way around that. It is indeed a very good service that charges accordingly. We are using the smallest cluster possible and it was necessary to do some convincing inside the company to approve it for our budget. That being said, the smallest cluster we are using is more than enough for our needs and will be for a long time, so it will take a long time for this cost to increase again, but it was a pretty big budget increase initially.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A Must-use Data Warehouse for Enterprises
Reviewed on 25/11/2023
Pros
It is feature packed and easy to use. Terraform package is well managed hence giving team access to IaC.
Granular RBAC provides a lot of opportunity for customisation and security governance.
Cons
Bill is costly if warehouse cost is not monitored and alerts are not set.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
How snowflake is different from other data warehouses present in the market.
Reviewed on 11/04/2022
Used for monitoring large amount and data and also use for analysis purposes for taking business...
Used for monitoring large amount and data and also use for analysis purposes for taking business decisions for the companies.
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The best thing is snowflake is a cloud based Warehouse system.and it’s completely based on shares nothing architecture so its gives faster performance during analysis.one more thing i like about this warehouse that the amount of time that you use the main warehouse here for that specific period of time you have to pay other than the warehouse is off for normal queries.particularly in dml statement mainly its uses the warehouse.so its manage automatically weather to use warehouse or not so it is very much good for saving money That’s why now big giants company are shifting towards snowflake for cost effective purposes and the smarter and faster performance it gives.and it also provides a feature call time travel where you can back up your all deleted data in a period of 90 days.
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There are two things I don’t like about the snowflake is it’s doesn’t support unstructured data loading it’s only support the structure and semi structure data. And other one is it’s only support the bulk loading files so it’s difficult for a small size files loading or adding some few columns on it.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Snowflake: Good tool in the World of Data Warehousing
Reviewed on 22/08/2023
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The most impressive aspect of Snowflake is its scalability and performance. It's truly built for the cloud, with a unique architecture that separates compute from storage, allowing each to scale independently. This means you can handle massive amounts of data without worrying about infrastructure or performance degradation. The pay-as-you-go model is also a big plus, as it allows for cost-effective data management.
Cons
While Snowflake offers a lot of advantages, it does have a steep learning curve, especially for those not familiar with SQL or cloud-based systems. The documentation, though extensive, can be overwhelming for beginners. Also, while the pay-as-you-go model is generally a plus, it can lead to unexpected costs if not managed properly.
Snowflake FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Snowflake.Q. What type of pricing plans does Snowflake offer?
Snowflake offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$23.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Capacity storage pricing starts at $23/TB/month. On-demand storage pricing starts at $40/TB/month. Snowflake pricing is based on the volume of data stored and compute time of use. For more information, please contact Snowflake Inc.
Q. Who are the typical users of Snowflake?
Snowflake has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Snowflake support?
Snowflake supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, Japanese, Spanish
Q. Does Snowflake support mobile devices?
Snowflake supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Snowflake integrate with?
Snowflake integrates with the following applications:
Alation, AtScale, Collibra, DataRobot, Dataiku, Domo, Fivetran, HVR, Immuta, Informatica Big Data, Matillion, Rivery, Salesforce Platform, Segment, Sisense, SnapLogic, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Workato, h2o
Q. What level of support does Snowflake offer?
Snowflake offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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