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    Dhaval R.

Snowflake is all you need for a database

  • September 03, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
My organisation consumes Snowflake as the leading service for storing and analysing data points collected from customers and clients. It provides a spotless and straightforward user interface. The ability to work on multiple tabs and queries is wholesome. It also supports different databases users need to select for querying the data point. It also has a separate canvas showing the status of query progress and SQL tree structure of the query with the amount of time each operation takes. Once the query is completed, it provides a download button to save the result. They recently introduced Snowflake Lite, which is also easy to use and valuable.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't include the feature to run multiple queries from a canvas. Sometimes the queries take longer than usual, and waiting is painful without a progress bar. There is no historical version of the canvas where the queries are written, so once it is lost, it is gone forever. There is no autocomplete feature support for table names or SQL syntax.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Snowflake to store the data points collected via pipeline from customer clients to the prod database. We use two different versions of Snowflake; one is for developer testing, and another is for the production database. I can filter data points through SQL queries based on dates, types, strings, etc on the Snowflake. The SQL tree is helpful to optimise the queries as it provides a breakdown of each component consuming resources and time.


    Computer Software

Makes it really easy to have all your data in one, easily-queryable place

  • September 02, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Really strong performance and speed, also easy sharing
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I don't like is that you cannot collaborate with teammates on a query
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes it easy to query data and quickly get metrics that we need


    Partik A.

Best tool for cloud based data warehousing implementation

  • July 27, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Data sharing, zero-copy cloning, time travel
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to be disliked about it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Ingestion/Processing with separate storage and processing capabilities through virtual warehouses


    Digambar J.

Lightning Fast & instantly Scalable Warehouse

  • July 27, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is best for unpredictable workloads or sudden spikes in user queries.
1. Since Compute & storage are decoupled, queries don't get queued for resources.
2. Another killing feature is it has Auto Pause & auto suspend modes which stops consuming credits when no queries are running.
3. Snowflake is an apparent winner compared to AWS Redshift when it comes to maintenance. Almost zero admin tasks everything is taken care of for you. You can either change a warehouse’s size or increase the number of clusters with almost zero downtime seamlessly.
4. As already mentioned it is best in the situations where you get temporary high workloads, so you can increase the compute capacity without increasing storage.
5. Built-in support for Semistructured data like JSON is worth mentioning.
6. Lift & shift from On-prem Relational DW to Snowflake is easy compared to other cloud warehouses.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complicated Billing. Snowflake’s On-Demand pricing model can be enticing initially, but it can be very unpredictable in the long run, and its cost increases as you go higher. As compared to Snowflake, Redshift has a simple pricing structure based on redshift clusters. Redshift also offers Reserved Instance Pricing, which allows you to unlock 75 percent savings which was the primary driver for switching from Snowflake to ASW redshift for one of our customers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Highly scalable Data Warehousing solution which can serve organizations' BI, Analytics & Decision support needs.
Highly useful for unprecedented /workloads which need instant scaling.
Helps quick migration from On-prem relational data warehouse(Oracle) to scalable cloud snowflake warehouse.
Flexibility to choose any public cloud storage be it AWS/Azure or GCP.


    Computer Software

Best cloud database service provider

  • July 19, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand through user guide. Nice gui. Fast results. Additional feature snowsight is an amazing add on.
What do you dislike about the product?
Every feature i have used so far is great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Database querying -results are fast
The result table can b directly copied without downloading.


    Tony H.

Snowflake: Iconic and Full-featured Data Virtualization Tool

  • July 14, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It is seamless to integrate data from multi-cloud and on-premise repositories.

Automatically prepare, model and visualize data.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am fully satisfied with Snowflake in terms of features coverage and customization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I relish a lot with Snowflake from saving time, finances to unlocking actionable insights on data.


    Liz G.

Snowflake is the best interface out there

  • June 23, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Built in geospatial functions in Snowflake, easy way to search the db, easy way to see parsed json in one click before querying, and all around intuitive to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like if you are working and accidentaly swipe to the left it kicks you back to the login screen. Super annoying. Also, when i work in snowsight to share queries when I save it and try to share with someone else it's still blank.

Also stop trying to push snowsight on users. Snowsight has bugs (memory issues limits on big querys) and hidden stuff (uploading data), I just want a direct log in to the classic console.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
querying data for adhocs, build pipelines for visuals in Tableau or other products, and keep data organized, help with geospatial queries to identify lat/long within geometries
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dig in and play around. Use the built in geospatial functions.


    Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Data Warehouse can't be better than this

  • June 16, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
- Excellent user interface and navigation features in the web portal.
- Easy to log in via SSO (Single Sign-On)
- Users can create unlimited worksheets and works are auto-saved for future use.
- Easy to run SQL queries just by highlighting the portion to execute.
- On the sidebar, we can find database objects like tables present in the dev/prod database.
- When executing complex queries, you can monitor running performance on each node.
- Another app version called Snowsight is available which also includes all features.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Whenever you want to execute a query you have to select it before running.
- Once a worksheet is deleted it's hard to find it back.
- Not easy for fresh eyes. Requires learning or background knowledge before using it.
- It will be really good to have a one-liner description pop-up when we hover a mouse on any button in UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Snowflake for collecting logs and stats data from customers cluster. For the development and testing I prefer to use dev version and for publishing final data we use Prod version and create tables to store/query on data. The SQL query also supports all operations which I use to filter the results and store the output on aws for sharing with team. Depending on the role of user, we can set their limitation to acces the prob db tables and data.


    Hospital & Health Care

Strategic Finance Manager

  • March 22, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy usage for non-data savvy users and readers
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup is not as straightforward as the usage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using SQL to analyze financial and customer data


    Rahul B.

Best Data Warehouse Tool

  • March 19, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is the best data warehousing tool in the market it gets all the features as one connects to any cloud Environment like AWS, Azure or GCP to store its data plus the virtual warehouse is pretty fast and its internal micro partitioning feature is also pretty handy.
What do you dislike about the product?
As it is pretty new to the market there are very few documentation or training to learn this tool also they can add new cloud environment like oracle cloud to the snowflake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do all the ETL stuff with snowflake and now using snowflake we can easily migrate our existing project to any cloud environment. it is very cot effective supports all the major clouds one connects to multiple languages using different connectors are all of the benefits of a snowflake.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
just go for it