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    christopher m.

Enabling analytics and data science to perform at scale

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflakes proprietary 3 tiered architecture is enabling analytics and data science at a scale previously difficult to accomplish. My clients need instant data, real-time reporting and the flexibility to blow things up into enterprise solutions without the legacy monolithic burdens that come from traditional alternative technology stacks. Looking forward to the evolution of this already fantastic solution!
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to see more product development on the wed based client for end user local file data upload. A lot of clients today aren't necessarily as technical as others and are certainly not DBAs with the skills necessary to fully exploit the power of the platform. The best client relationships come from working within an organization in the small business units that have to self-service independent from enterprise resources, we need to further enable them to succeed!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytics, data science, machine learning, data sharing at scale.


    Insurance

Data Warehouse Modernization

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The ability to take several approaches in our data warehouse modernization journey - ease of lift and shift vs total refactoring. We can enable our customers at the speed of our data without the worry of replatforming to newer on prem infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need a stronger set of capabilities to enable migration of large data sets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of scale to respond to heavy on demand workloads.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a journey, but well worth the patience to modernize.


    Jacob M.

A great, scaleable database

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Our organization does not have a constant load on the database. With most solutions, this means that we normally need under powered hardware to save money, or over-sized servers to meet our peak load times. Snowflake's auto scaling and multi-cluster support have been extremely helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The federated login and duo support is buggy at best. We've enforced duo login for our ACCOUNTADMIN roles, but that makes dealing with most IDEs and Tableau a nightmare since they don't support the option to use private keys.

Additionally, the role based security is very hard to manage. We have 80 permission levels spread across 7 data domains. Since a user isn't able to utilize more than one role at a time, we have to then create user specific roles that inherit just their permissions. I would much rather simply assign roles to users and skip the role setting during login.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our biggest problems have been lack of horsepower on our servers. Snowflake has allowed us to scale our infrastructure in a much more cost effective way.


    Consumer Goods

What a Database Should Be.

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The separation of storage and compute can not be understated. It is exceptionally easy to get started and the browser based UI make development easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have yet to find a hard dislike. The IDE in browser could provide better autocomplete features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving from AWS Glue and Redshift, to snowflake we save a significant amount of $.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Within one day we were able to fully build our proof of concept with snowflakes trial account. Utilize the time to populate with your own data, and explore "Snowpipe".


    Retail

Enablement through data and quantifiable ROI

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use platform that allows for separation of compute and storage enables the most effective database solution in it's technology generation. Additionally, the ability to scale up, scale down, and be able to manage without a team of DBA's allows for the highest value possible.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not applicable, it's been a great platform that enables the organiation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Billions of data stored without the heavy cost of netezza, teradata or orcale.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get it, it's the easiest decision you'll ever make in terms of business ROI and technical capabilities.


    Entertainment

Snowflake - nothing like it!!

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Clear split between CPU and Storage. Pay as you go option works best. Best part is the no admin overhead like column compression, Primary keys etc. Cloning and Data sharing features are stand out and makes them stand out from other options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Snowflake is a blackbox and sometimes its hard to figure out why some queries take lot of time. Is it because they are supposed to or if something is wrong. Please work on that
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data sharing, Custom warehouses that help segregate heavy and minimal users. Development time is reduced


    Mika H.

Best platform for former Oracle DBAs

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
As a former Oracle DBA, I really like the setup that I do not need to worry about adding more tablespaces and worrying about the compute.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of AD integration, as I still need to create users manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basic customer IOT realtime JSON datasources to dashboards


    Broadcast Media

Unique

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Each snowflake is unique, and every employee i have come in contact with so far are all extremely knowledge and professional. highly recommend!!
What do you dislike about the product?
so far i have not found anything that i dislike in regards to snowflake
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data integration and query perfomance increases


    Retail

Best Cloud Data Warehouse

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is the answer to all those data warehousing pains from those on-prem solutions. Scalability, cloning, time-travel, etc... The list just goes on and on
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Like I said best platform out there
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can have a test/dev database without all the extra hardware and software licenses. We don't have to worry about backups and restores. We can scale up during peak times and scale back down. No need for a DBA or sysadmin to service the box, add more hardware, etc.


    Utilities

Great no work platform

  • June 04, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
great performance with minimal setup, easy to integrate with othe rplatforms
What do you dislike about the product?
convincing DBAs to switch platforms, not much else to dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wide variety of problems, lower maintenance costs, easy startup