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Delivers on everything promised
What do you like best about the product?
The snapshot capabilities. The ability to take snapshots quickly so that we can work with a copy of the data
What do you dislike about the product?
The security model can be a bit tedious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake is helping us to scale our data business in a cost efficient manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need the ability to scale up and down quickly, then this is your solution.
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Perfect Data Warehouse in the cloud
What do you like best about the product?
JSON support is amazing. While other engines support JSON format for data types, snowflake does it with performance. It is a breeze to query data stored as JSON because of underlying columnar storage that JSON gets converted to. We also like how easy it is to add additional compute nodes when needed. This was a pain point with some other vendors. With a push of a button (or a simple script) you can add additional compute power. When the demand subsides, you can turnd those off.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost. It's on the pricier end of things. Between Azure Data Warehouse and AWS Redshift, Snowflake was significantly more expensive even with auto shut off feature enabled. But it seems that some of those costs can be written off due to simplicity of set up and maintenance that would typically go to DBA resource.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were in need of a modern, cloud and scalable data warehouse. We have a lot of data that's pretty structured for the most part, and we were looking for a product that can provide quick reads on analytic loads.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Getting data into snowflake is slightly different from some other ETL processes that you may have encountered. Mind that piece when evaluating.
Great scaleable service, just some smaller company kinks to iron out
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of scaling, access to support, how the service is always getting better
What do you dislike about the product?
Unexpected downtime, was tough to get status updates on these downtimes - that has been getting better generally
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Larger scale processing, ease of scaling up when volumes get too high.
lead data engineer
What do you like best about the product?
first: the fast compute and unlimited storage . second: the connection to AWS S3. third the snow piple.
What do you dislike about the product?
Query GUI, it will be nice to have all the features like the generic query analyzer , example: DB VISUAL
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big data for analytics
Connection to AWS S3
Connection to AWS S3
Recommendations to others considering the product:
this is the product to go for big data solution
Snowflake has been amazing for our company
What do you like best about the product?
Probably my favorite thing is how we can spin up the size of Snowflake for our ETL loads and derived tables builds throughout the day.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think what we struggle the most with is applying security roles to all schemas, databases and tables. Snowflake does have robust security but it does take some time to set up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to get our important reports out much sooner each day than when we are on Redshift.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do a POC to see just how much better Snowflake is if you are struggling with your current database.
Great onboarding and service
What do you like best about the product?
Very fast onboarding - very proactive Sales/Technical account assistance
What do you dislike about the product?
Somewhat lack of technical tools to load data in Snowflake. Community is still somewhat young
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analyzing large amounts of consumption SVOD data. Able to run really quick queries and build large data backends for our Tableau reports
Best Data Warehouse out there
What do you like best about the product?
It is super easy for my work as a Data Engineer to connect to Snowflake via Spark and streamline our ETL pipeline. It is ANSI SQL-compliant, so it is not much new to learn for anyone who has a SQL background.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it supported Dynamic SQL. And, while it is convenient that UDFs can be written in JavaScript, I would love to see the addition of more languages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to store and easily query more data than ever before.
Excellent platform
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, scalability and excellent support
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I really dislike about it, great platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big data analytics to service the lifesciences market
Most groundbreaking data warehosue + data lake platform money can buy
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake completely changes the data warehousing paradigm. All of the implicit weaknesses that are baked into the core architecture of every major DW vendor in the last 30 years are gone. Endless CPU, endless storage, endless RAM. You will never get a spool space or tempdb error. You can store XML, JSON, and flat files natively and join them into your relational table queries. Snowflake automatically scales horizontally as necessary to complete the workload as quickly as possible.
It has oustanding NoSQL support, but it's also the fastest and most flexible relational database you can get at any price from any vendor. Including the ones that cost 7-8 figures per year.
It has oustanding NoSQL support, but it's also the fastest and most flexible relational database you can get at any price from any vendor. Including the ones that cost 7-8 figures per year.
What do you dislike about the product?
Partner support (ETL tools, BI tools) isn't as broad as more established databases. However, this is changing quickly. Most of the modern players already have connectors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of our customers was on the verge of making an investment that was deep into the 6 (or 7) figures to make a major upgrade to an existing data warehouse platform. We did a bake off with each vendor, and Showflake was the only game-changer.
Every operation is on average 20x-25x faster than their legacy infrastructure, and 5-10x faster than every other database in the bunch. And the cost basis is roughly the same as their legacy DW infrastructure, which is 5x less than it would have been with any other vendor.
Every operation is on average 20x-25x faster than their legacy infrastructure, and 5-10x faster than every other database in the bunch. And the cost basis is roughly the same as their legacy DW infrastructure, which is 5x less than it would have been with any other vendor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Hire an expert to help with the move. It has ANSI SQL support and uses Oracle SQL syntax, but many of the design considerations can be quite different than any other database.
A powerful SQL and data aggregation suite
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and simple platform really make data analysis a breeze
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited usage with only sql, and no ability to use python in line with sql in the snowflake environment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All data acquisition is done through snowflake and the benefits of a cloud system promote remote usage
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get adapted to this new system to better your work flows and speed up your data analytics processes
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