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    Health, Wellness and Fitness

Fast Data storage

  • March 12, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is easy to use, and abstracts away a lot of the annoying problems of database management I had to deal with when running my own.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's poor visibility into query optimization, but that's not so bad because it runs so fast. I also don't know how optimally I use all of my warehouses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Storing large quantities of data without worrying about scaling databases

    Computer Software

Seems to just do what it says

  • March 12, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, nice docs, full ansi SQL support
What do you dislike about the product?
docs are not as usable as they used to be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
large data store

    Sonny R.

Near Zero Maintenance

  • March 02, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
We have taken over all of the DBA management for our warehouse(s) without additional resources. This is because we don't have very many maintenance or configuration tasks (or issues).
What do you dislike about the product?
Have a more robust stored procedure features will be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reducing maintenance of our data warehouses (building indexes, restarting servers, etc)
Meeting SLAs by moving from nightly batch processing to near-real-time micro-batching (15-30 mins).
Product stability and improved performance
Reducing cost
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Snowflake out performs others by separating compute and storage. Per second billing in conjunction with pausing and auto resume can really save cost. We have very little maintenance and configuration work. My team has taken over all of the DBA tasks since there are so few and it's very low complexity.

    Financial Services

Very satisfy with the product, less with the support

  • March 01, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
the product flexibility to scale, no maintenance and support both structured and semi-structured data
What do you dislike about the product?
the support of this product is not that weel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
DWH and BI for our company
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great product with almost zero maintenance, easy to use and work super fast.

    daniel c.

Amazing Solution!

  • February 27, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake's flexibility in the data warehouse space is amazing. The scalability and price can't be beat! Plus, I have an amazing Account Exec, Chris Li, that is always passionate about providing the best value.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would love to see smart text when drafting SQL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In the process of developing an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). We've made a lot of progress and our internal customers can run queries that are extremely fast making it easier for them to make key decisions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it! You'll be amazed at the query performance and low cost

    Stuart H.

Turnkey simplicity

  • February 27, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake just works! No crazy complexity required to fine tune the system, no complex spreading of data across nodes, partitioning, indexing, configuation etc. Need a separate 'box' for heavy duty BI queries? Spin one up instantly! Need a bigger resource for a big ETL job, again spin one up instantaneously and shut it down when it's done - per second billing means you don't pay for resources you don't need. You can really tell a lot of thought has gone into a complete redesign - it hasn't been 'stretched' for the cloud, but 'built' for the cloud
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really! The organisation is growing rapidly, so they don't necessarily have the customer suppot teams outside of Europe. Some functions are WIP e.g. additional windowing functions, recursion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake is acting as a data lake/warehouse for my organisation, which alleviates the need to have eg Hadoop for storage and an RDBMS for presentation. One platform makes it so much simpler.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
use the free trial credits to try for yourself

    Computer & Network Security

I think Snowflake could be an excellent choice as a data warehouse

  • February 27, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake provides the flexibility to use the data warehouse by multiple analysts at the same time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think you can add more features to the web interface.
The way I see it, it eventually should have most of the features a modern IDE has, in terms of syntax highlighting, autocomplete, refactoring.
One simple example: it could be great if I could collapse a query. It happens a lot that you run multiple queries from the same worksheet.

Another
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security analytics.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Before start using a data warehouse, you should understand the use case. It's weird to start paying for running queries. It's not very intuitive.
We are used to purchase a product and pay for that. It's strange to pay differently if someone was running a inefficient query.

    Carlos F.

Finally, Cloud-based data warehousing done right.

  • February 27, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Big data capabilities with the familiarity of SQL. No need to learn a new language.
Auto-scaling of computing resources and data sharing functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
Compilation times on somewhat complex queries is high. We use materialized views to address this problem and take advantage of caching, but we believe there is room for improvement here.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making semistructured data available for analysis, allowing power users to directly query the DW without interfering with production resources and the potential of the data sharing capabilities have been a big win for us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do ELT instead of ETL. Take advantage of SnowPipe, Alooma, Fivetran or any other streaming service/architecture to get your data into Snowflake.

    Scott S.

Great value for money, actionable data platform that will accelerate any data strategy

  • February 26, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
We got to modernise our ailing, ageing data infrastructure without it costing the earth. Our data staff, all conversant in SQL were able to transfer their skills overnight, and our analytics staff all got access to cloud scalability to support their heavy analytical workloads (no Hadoop in sight). VERY, VERY cost effective way to modernise!
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing - it's brilliant! Would really love there to be a built-in environment for scheduling SQL scripts, but there are plenty of ETL tools for this already.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business problems / opportunities = Single Customer View. Customer Data Platform. Website engagement / data collection. Enterprise Data Warehouse. Business Intelligence modernisation. Predictive Analytics.

Benefits = cost savings over "big data" solutions; cost saving on data warehouse management, business intelligence modernisation, supporting predictive analytics initiatives that are saving money / boosting top line sales. In-sourced single customer view.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just do it. Honestly, if you are looking for a sophisticated data platform that supports heavy analytical workloads, whilst keeping it simple then you will not find a better solution.

    Avinash H.

Easy to use zero maintenance true cloud data warehouse

  • February 26, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is a zero maintenance true cloud data warehouse. We can control the cost, scale up and down the resources needed to make it fast. It is compatible with ANSI SQL which makes querying data very easy. Also in built support for JSON handling that data easier. Strong security come out of the box with roles and schema level controls.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would want more ways to load data into Snowflake. Also handling of more character types would make some tasks easier. Some of the error messages are not intuitive. Also native integration with traditional databases would make it easier to manage ETL jobs. Some kind of inbuilt scheduling capability would also make it easier to use Snowflake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I gather data from multiple data sources in different formats into Snowflake and then stitch it together using ETL. By this I build data marts for marketing, sales, product etc. which are then connected to Tableau to produce dashboards. This has enabled full view of our customers journey and easy insights for different teams across the company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good product. But need to manage to keep costs lower.

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