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    Information Technology and Services

Performance and Ease of use

  • November 08, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Extremely easy to get started. Snowflake supports the most common SQL operations as well as a large library of useful analytic functions. It includes excellent documentation and with performance tuning handled by Snowflake, it's easy for analysts to focus on writing SQL.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints so far. It's by far the best database engine I've used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Answer transaction-level questions on large datasets at scale.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's easy to switch!


    Hospital & Health Care

great cloud data warehouse

  • October 29, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
snowflake is great and it is a very popular tool for data warehouse building in the cloud it lets you import tons of data instantly
What do you dislike about the product?
it is a little bit expensive and it takes awhile to set up
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
build data warehouse in the cloud with very little investment


    Marketing and Advertising

Snowflake Solves problems

  • October 09, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like that compute and storage are separate and i can scale up my compute. That writes do not block reads.
What do you dislike about the product?
The architecture is not good for web speed apps. There is too much latency per call.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lots of problems. We are basing our customer facing flagship product on it and we are using it internally for many uses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do a proof of concept.


    Market Research

Simple to use datawarehouse solution for extremely large data

  • October 09, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake can handle the extremely large data -- on the order of thousands of TB -- that we have, and provide us with rapid results.
What do you dislike about the product?
Poor documentation -- although clustering is Snowflake's killer feature, figuring out why, after calling 'alter table recluster' on a table, that table is only .001% more clustered than before is painful. It's not clear why you wouldn't just sort the table on insert instead of calling recluster, since recluster on a static dataset incurs the penalty of insertion twice. Not much documentation about how data will be loaded, just vague statements from their tech team that "if your data is naturally clustered, Snowflake will recognize that." Well..... explain what you mean, please.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Primarily we have been using Snowflake to run adhoc reports on the behalf of clients. We would not be able to do so on nearly any other data warehouse system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's easy to use but pretty expensive and can be a little bit opaque to figure out.


    Marketing and Advertising

Snowflake for storing and accessing analytics data

  • October 09, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Compute vs store split, UI interface is generally good with some small issues
What do you dislike about the product?
Query history interface, query history limitations, notifications about service disruptions/changes could be clearer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having all the analytics data in one managed service, easy scale-up when needed


    Padmanesh N.

Awesome data-warehousing Tool

  • July 27, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
This feature is helpful for user to increase the node size and config depending on their need. There is no need to wait for hardware to be in place whenever we increase the dataset. Snowflake provides the option to increase the node or cluster size whenever required.
What do you dislike about the product?
Of course, every product has pluses and minuses. From that perspective, Snowflake has to improve there spatial parts. I mean it doesn't have much stuff in geo-spatial queries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Valuable Features
Scalability: Ability to load huge number of datasets (I have experience with petabytes of data) and process those things. Storage is not limited. We can increase whatever we want.

Performance: The distributed architecture of Snowflake has the capacity to process huge dataset faster and we can scale up and down as per the need.

Flexibility: This feature is helpful for user to increase the node size and config depending on their need. There is no need to wait for hardware to be in place whenever we increase the dataset. Snowflake provides the option to increase the node or cluster size whenever required.

Multi-formatted accessibility: The Snowflake engine has the capability to read the following file formats: CSV, DELIMITER, FIXEDWIDTH, AVRO, JSON, BZIP2, GZIP, LZOP. The user can choose which is best for their requirements.

Configuration: Even-though its running in AWS platform, it beats their platform product. Actually I feel more flexible than Redshift.

Snow-pipe: Snow-Pipe is better system to feed stream data to snowflake database. This is really helpful for less self-life triggering datasets.


    Kristina C.

Very as good data warehouse

  • March 28, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We have a large amount of data which the warehouse handles without issue. It also updates frequently.
What do you dislike about the product?
If something goes wrong, sometimes it's difficult to get an answer as to why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a TON of data and needed a data warehouse to keep it in. This provides that solution.


    vidhey t.

Good software

  • February 10, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake computing is best for concurrent user data access, easy scaling of storage from few gigabytes to petabytes. Analytics on big data seems to be easy and fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing of the features is not the best compared to other products in the market.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data analytics, cloud storage
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would suggest going for trial and evaluation copy initially to validate if the software meets the client requirements.


    Human Resources

Snowflake is a Warm Experience

  • February 07, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is a user friendly product that adapts to any company needs and provides technical support whenever needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not have any negative comments at this time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake is solving our companies problem with cloud-based data storage. It benefit is just that, it slows us to store data more efficiently.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
An excellent product for any industry.


    Marketing and Advertising

Sales Executive Experience

  • February 07, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
That all our data is stored in the cloud. being 2018 this is where we need to be
What do you dislike about the product?
that it was hard at first to get our owners to commit to the cloud
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
secure data leads to happy IT and bosses
Recommendations to others considering the product:
none