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Unlike any other database
What do you like best about the product?
The features which are utterly unique, like time travel, zero copy cloning and separate costs for storage and compute. Snowflake is especially controllable - I can create data warehouses for specific purposes and groups of users or processes, and determine when they're available - all on the basis that the cost relates to the value.
What do you dislike about the product?
Snowflake is still new. There are some features which would be useful around metadata management for data analysts, and other functions which other databases have. But I'm sure these are on the roadmap and will come in time - probably sooner than I expect!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To become more customer centric, to improve the efficiency of business operations, and to make it easier to comply with regulations. All of these can be achieved more effectively, faster and at a cost that more directly reflects the benefits achieved, than with other databases I've come to know.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You must take a look at Snowflake. It represents a massive and significant step-change in what's otherwise been a very staid area of computing.
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Simple to use datawarehouse solution for extremely large data
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.
Snowflake for storing and accessing analytics data
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
great product
What do you like best about the product?
The performance is incredible. Queries that took hours to run on MySQL run in seconds.
What do you dislike about the product?
The online interface is clunky. Having a desktop app would be ideal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're moving over long running batch processes that used to run on MySQL. The run-time has been improved from hours to minutes.
Blazing fast and cheaper DataWarehouse and iOT platform
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake has ease of implementation, with no maintenance and has massive scalability. The storage cost is minimal. Horizontal and vertical scalability without any downtime. Elasticity of usage. The only database on the market that is truely built for cloud. Native support of Semi structured data
What do you dislike about the product?
MFA needs to be supported through any tool.Operational dashboard is needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise Data Warehouse and Device data at scale. Minimal management roles like DBA and sysadmin. Focus on business enablement and real time data access. Advanced analytics enablement.
A data warehouse platform for the SaaS generation
What do you like best about the product?
Low maintenance. No more downtimes! No rebalances. Full control over compute resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest gripe is privileges are not rules based. You have to re-grant permissions on objects you recreate. Not a big deal once you're steady state, but annoying in a collaboration development phase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise data warehouse. Single source of truth without limitations on data structure or size. Devs are amazed we can consume their JSON straight from S3 and turn it into reports so quickly.
Awesome data-warehousing Tool
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.
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.
The way data warehouse is done now.
What do you like best about the product?
It is built for the cloud and is flexible in increasing and decreasing the size.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of anything at this time..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data warehouse for Looker front end
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Talk to them to get a good estimate of how much it would cost, it may surprise you that it is the most cost effective option.
Snowflake - The best Hidden Software
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is extremely agile in pulling down data from large data sets. The UI is simply and well designed. Quick queries allow beginners to try writing SQL and make quick adjustments until the correct result is achieved.
What do you dislike about the product?
The proprietary technology can turn some away with its secrets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Diving into large data sets and pulling out snippets of data that allow me solve data questions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make the switch
Very as good data warehouse
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.
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