I have used Snowflake for an end-to-end data solutioning as a warehouse, including all its capabilities such as ingestion and any implementations that were needed.
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Cloud-Native Analytics Made Effortless and Scalable
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is a cloud-native data platform that removes infrastructure management and simplifies analytics.
It separates storage and compute for flexible scaling and cost efficiency.
With automatic optimization, strong security, and easy data sharing, it makes working with large data fast and reliable.
It separates storage and compute for flexible scaling and cost efficiency.
With automatic optimization, strong security, and easy data sharing, it makes working with large data fast and reliable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Snowflake can become expensive if warehouses are left running or queries aren’t optimized.
It also gives less control over low-level tuning compared to traditional databases.
Vendor lock-in is another concern since Snowflake features are tightly tied to its platform.
It also gives less control over low-level tuning compared to traditional databases.
Vendor lock-in is another concern since Snowflake features are tightly tied to its platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake solves problems like infrastructure management, scalability, and slow analytics on large datasets.
By separating storage and compute, it allows fast, flexible scaling without impacting other users.
This benefits me by reducing operational effort, improving query performance, and enabling quicker data-driven decisions.
By separating storage and compute, it allows fast, flexible scaling without impacting other users.
This benefits me by reducing operational effort, improving query performance, and enabling quicker data-driven decisions.
Outstanding Performance and Simplicity for Modern Data Platforms
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake’s performance and simplicity stand out. Features like automatic clustering, micro-partitioning, and zero-copy cloning reduce operational overhead while still delivering high query performance. The platform is easy to manage compared to traditional data warehouses.
Finally, Snowflake’s strong ecosystem and cloud-native capabilities—including secure data sharing, time travel, and seamless integration with tools like DBT and cloud services—make it highly effective for building modern, scalable data platforms.
Finally, Snowflake’s strong ecosystem and cloud-native capabilities—including secure data sharing, time travel, and seamless integration with tools like DBT and cloud services—make it highly effective for building modern, scalable data platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Snowflake is primarily related to cost predictability and control. While the platform scales very well, it is easy for costs to increase unexpectedly if warehouses are not carefully managed or if inefficient queries run at scale.
Another limitation is reduced transparency and control at the infrastructure level. Compared to open-source or self-managed systems, debugging deep performance issues or understanding low-level execution behavior can be challenging.
Lastly, for certain use cases, vendor lock-in can be a concern. Snowflake’s proprietary features and SQL extensions make migrations to other platforms more complex, which requires careful architectural planning upfront.
Another limitation is reduced transparency and control at the infrastructure level. Compared to open-source or self-managed systems, debugging deep performance issues or understanding low-level execution behavior can be challenging.
Lastly, for certain use cases, vendor lock-in can be a concern. Snowflake’s proprietary features and SQL extensions make migrations to other platforms more complex, which requires careful architectural planning upfront.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake solves the problem of scalability and operational complexity in data warehousing by providing a fully managed, cloud-native platform that separates compute from storage. This eliminates the need for capacity planning, infrastructure management, and manual performance tuning that are common with traditional warehouses.
It also addresses performance bottlenecks and concurrency issues. Multiple teams can run ETL jobs, analytics, and ad-hoc queries simultaneously using separate virtual warehouses without impacting each other. This directly benefits me by ensuring consistent query performance even during heavy workloads.
Additionally, Snowflake simplifies data sharing, governance, and reliability through features like secure data sharing, time travel, fail-safe, and automatic optimization. As a result, I can focus more on data modeling, pipeline reliability, and analytics use cases rather than infrastructure maintenance, leading to faster development and more dependable data delivery.
It also addresses performance bottlenecks and concurrency issues. Multiple teams can run ETL jobs, analytics, and ad-hoc queries simultaneously using separate virtual warehouses without impacting each other. This directly benefits me by ensuring consistent query performance even during heavy workloads.
Additionally, Snowflake simplifies data sharing, governance, and reliability through features like secure data sharing, time travel, fail-safe, and automatic optimization. As a result, I can focus more on data modeling, pipeline reliability, and analytics use cases rather than infrastructure maintenance, leading to faster development and more dependable data delivery.
Intuitive and User-Friendly Experience with Snowflake
What do you like best about the product?
I find Snowflake to be quite intuitive and user-friendly. The interface makes it simple to locate everything I need.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the new UI rollout a bit uncomfortable, as I preferred the old layout for organizing things more effectively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in data integration, and we use Snowflake both for integrating our data and for data warehousing to support our analysis needs.
Excellent Data Warehousing Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is a great data warehousing tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Snowflake can have high incurring cost at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everything related to data warehousing.
Blazing Fast Data Processing for Large Volumes
What do you like best about the product?
It's processing time of huge number of records in short time
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a lag of 24 hrs of sync of data between external system and snowflake
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping in running reports which will take long time to run in excel
Supports real-time pipelines and testing through dynamic features and flexible data replication
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Snowflake has evolved significantly over time. Initially, they started with scalability, but more recently, they have introduced streaming capabilities, real-time and dynamic tables, along with various connectors.
Snowflake is well integrated with other solutions. I have used the Snowflake Zero-Copy Cloning feature in the past while prototyping data in lower environments. This feature is helpful as it saves a lot of time during the data replication process.
I have utilized the Time Travel feature multiple times while conducting testing. I have typically used the Time Travel feature for testing to see what the state of data was at a specific point in time. This feature is helpful, and Snowflake also has good RBAC policies with masking capabilities and policies that can be implemented.
Snowflake's data sharing capabilities are good for enhancing collaboration within the team. Additionally, Snowflake has introduced Snowpark and AAML integration, which makes it feasible to perform CICD operations.
What needs improvement?
Snowflake is currently stable, but it can be improved further. They have a couple of information schemas that can track account usage. If more connectors were brought in and more visibility features were added, particularly around cost tracking in the FinOps area, it would be beneficial.
I think the pricing for Snowflake is fair, and customers need to cautiously monitor their usage, as that is the customer's responsibility.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have worked with Snowflake for more than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Snowflake is currently stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Recently, Snowflake has introduced streaming capabilities, real-time and dynamic tables, along with various connectors.
How are customer service and support?
I have not had a direct interaction with Snowflake's customer service or technical support. I have only interacted with them for billing calls, and those interactions have been fine without any challenges.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What other advice do I have?
I have not explored multi-cloud deployment in Snowflake extensively enough to understand how it impacts an organization's data strategy for cost, performance, or compliance. I can rate Snowflake an eight out of ten based on my limited encounters with their support team, as those interactions have been positive. My company are customers only, not partners of Snowflake. I would rate this product nine out of ten overall.
Have prioritized security while managing multi-agent data migration and cloud adoption
What is our primary use case?
In terms of solutions such as security, automation, or monitoring, security is prime. In agentic, I am building the agentic assets. From a data migration perspective, we are building the multi-agent accelerator which will help to migrate legacy data to a cloud platform or new platform, such as Databricks and Snowflake. Everywhere security is a prime concern nowadays. Nobody will allow you without the security assurance.
Regarding assessing Snowflake's data sharing capabilities in terms of enhancing collaboration, currently there isn't end-to-end or B2B sharing of data.
What is most valuable?
We utilize Time Travel with Snowflake because this is a very useful feature. Everyone finds it crucial because in conventional data platforms, it's very difficult to handle these kinds of things. This feature is essential, though I don't have the use cases currently; it is just there for implementation.
Regarding Snowflake's automated scaling and suspension features, this auto-scaling is very significant. We had a comparison with Databricks and Snowflake a few months back, and this auto-scaling takes an edge within Snowflake; that's what our observation reflects.
What needs improvement?
If I were to rate support, I would say it's about an 8 or 9. There is always room for improvement. What things you are going with to ask the support and how we manage the relationship matters a lot. Overall, we are very happy with Snowflake support.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been familiar with Snowflake since the last three to four years because within Genpact we have started using it.
How are customer service and support?
I am satisfied with the work of technical support from Snowflake; they are responsive and helpful.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What other advice do I have?
This is a service industry, service company.
Regarding satisfaction with pricing for Snowflake, I'm not in detail about Snowflake. I'm managing all the agentic world for the last two years, GenAI agentic. I don't have much insight on that part. The actual licensing is managed by the COE leads working with the sourcing team.
I rate Snowflake 8 out of 10.
Powerful platform for handling large data workloads easily !
What do you like best about the product?
I like how effortless it is to scale up or down based on workload. Queries run fast and the separation of storage and compute keeps performance consistent even when multiple users are active. The interface is clean and the integration with BI tools like Power BI and Tableau works perfectly for analytics projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Costs can climb quickly when queries run continuously. Some monitoring options feel limited unless you use external tools. The learning curve for role management is also a bit tricky at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solved our data silos problem by centralizing everything in one warehouse. Different teams now access the same clean data without duplication. It saves hours each week since we don’t have to export or transform files manually. Collaboration between analytics and engineering teams is smoother which helps deliver reports faster.
Good decision for cloud data warehousing
What do you like best about the product?
Depending on the size of your warehouse, we can handle a large amount of data without performance issues. This would be very difficult with an on-prem server.Further, the separation of storage and compute helps with resource management.Additionally, we're a Tableau shop, and Tableau has a built-in connector with Snowflake that is reliable and efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost management can be challenging. This is where the size of the warehouse comes into play (see What do you like best about Snowflake?). If you optimize the size of your warehouse small, costs will be smaller. Along these lines, it's best to understand credit usage early to make sure you're managing effectively. But overall, few negatives that can't be managed with some forethought.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our infrastructure is quite complex, but since Snowflake is fully managed, we no longer have to worry about provisioning or ongoing maintenance. This allows our data architecture team to focus on more valuable work, while our data analytics team benefits from uninterrupted access, as maintenance issues no longer cause downtime. Scalability is another key advantage—Snowflake efficiently processes large volumes of data without requiring our architecture team to oversee the infrastructure. This not only saves time but also enables quicker queries, even as our total data volume increases. Ultimately, this leads to faster project scaling, quicker insights, and allows us to devote less effort to managing our data strategy.
Efficient, scalable, and reliable data warehouse for modern analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake’s ability to handle large volumes of structured and semi-structured data seamlessly is its biggest strength. The separation of compute and storage lets us scale resources independently, which improves performance during heavy reporting workloads. It also integrates smoothly with BI tools like Power BI and Tableau, making it easy to deliver insights quickly without manual data preparation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although Snowflake is highly efficient, query costs can add up quickly if the virtual warehouses aren’t managed properly. Also, real-time data streaming capabilities are still somewhat limited compared to other cloud-native services. A more intuitive cost-monitoring dashboard and tighter integration with streaming platforms like Kafka would make it even more powerful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake has helped centralize large data sets from multiple sources—HR, finance, and donor systems—into one scalable warehouse. This unified platform allows us to run complex SQL queries, automate reporting, and generate real-time dashboards in Power BI. It also simplified data governance and eliminated storage constraints we had with traditional on-prem databases. Overall, it enables faster data-driven decision-making and supports analytics initiatives without extensive infrastructure management.
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