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Website,Reviewer,Designation,Ratings,PROS,CONS
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Katie W.",,5,Easy-to-use interface to access and analyze data. Easy to to add/export data,Snowsight is a less powerful view than the original console
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Prakash T.",Architect,5,It's multi domain data platform and milti cluster shared database concepts.snowflake ETL tool provides ease to access source system and dump the structured and semi structured data.,"So far not much drawbacks observed but better to have some connectors to connect with other commercial products like IBM Watson,IBM infosphere MDM etc"

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Verified User in Consumer Goods",,4.5,Simple to use UI that is constantly improving. Snowflake provides a scalable platform for our team to continue building our Data Lake and enrich it with data from external database shares & marketplace data,"I have no complaints about the platform itself. However, one area I wish was more flexible was around annual billing. If you do not renew at or above the previous year's credits, you lose the ability to rollover any used credits"
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Nitin A.",Software Developer,5,"The features I liked the most about Snowflake are,

1. It creates a structured table for collecting data backed by a pipeline that pushes data to Snowflake.

2. The queries are simple to write and execute. It also shows the total time taken per a clause in the SQL query which can be used to optimize the queries further.

3. I can download the result from the table in .csv format into my PC.

4. I can create multiple editor windows to save my queries and documents to refer to later.

5. Snowflake provides a developer version where I can test my code locally. In the production version data from the clients are stored.","When I accidentally delete an editor window I find it hard to get it back. It would be much better if table results allow downloading results for selected columns. The query results are displayed in a small window, if there had been a separate window for it, it would be amazing"
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Singh M B.",,4.5,"The best thing about Snowflake is it's architecture , which provide flexibility like big data . Users can scale up or down as needed and pay for only the resources they use. Storage is billed by terabytes stored per month, and computation is billed on a per-second basis. Snowflake also has the capability to run JSON queries more efficiently.","Snowflake support semi-structured and structured data. unstructured data support is not there currently. Snowflake is infinitely scalable , so I thing it should limit sometime , otherwise it lead to heavy bills ."

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Lawton W.",Analytics Consultant,4.5,"Snowflake has a very intuitive interface and many useful features, such as the SQL that users can run on it. The statistics for the tables used is incredibly useful. The UI looks great and the organization between Database, Schema, and Table is great as well.","It was difficult to add data to an empty table by uploading a csv. Sometimes it can is not easy to switch to another region due to the auto-login. Additionally, the folder organization for worksheets would have been a bit better for my use cases if it functioned more like a file explorer than most recently used and pure folders."

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Sahil J.",NVH Account Manager,4.5,it's very easy to understand and work on Snowflake the user interface and easy navigation is really helful,some functions are a little difficult to understand
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Eran E.",Engineering manager,4,can manage big data very efficiently and easily,sometime the data transfer can be little slow
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Sukh K.",,4.5,"Helpful to get deep insights and simplicity of making a pipeline from various data sources, which helped us create a quicker business market decision for growth. The ability to work on multiple queries is impressive and it has control over the sharing and access capabilities.","UI can be improved in terms of data visualization and catalog. Moreover, issue in importing and loading the bulk data"
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Yogesh T.",Senior Applied Data Scientist,5,"Snowflake is a robust and reliable platform for any company, small or large. Since data is stored in one system, integrating and automating pipelines becomes very easy. It is very user-friendly; as an analyst, we can quickly harness the data to find insights and make reports.","It becomes hard to troubleshoot errors, and there are not many resources available on the internet for Snowflake. Documentation also sometimes feels outdated for fixing errors."
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Ashish D.",DB2 System Programmer,4.5,Apart from data storage it provides fast and easily accessible platform. It is way cheaper and reliable than Oracle services as it comes with pause feature for cluster when not in use.,Materialized views are limited to table. Needs improvement in Inbuilt data lineage capabilities.
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Vibhuti J.",Associate Consultant- Talent Acquisition,4.5,"user friendly, easy to navigate with excellent cloud computing experience",UI/UX user interface is good but can be surely improved
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Madhusudan S.",Wordpress Developer,5,"Using Snowflake has been a great experience; I appreciate how easy it is to view, analyse, and produce reports that are helpful for the organization's business decision-making. Its cloud-based nature, which eliminates the need to install software and does not affect how quickly our PCs work at all during analysis, is another feature I enjoy.","The data that needs to be imported must be structured or semi-structured; as of right now, it does not support loading unstructured data, which may be a hassle for some since it affects the price."
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Rohit M.",Project Manager,4,"Snowflake's engineering depends on a cloud-based information distribution center that isolates processing assets from capacity. This considers versatility and flexibility, permitting clients to add or eliminate assets on a case-by-case basis to meet changing information needs. Moreover, Snowflake has inherent help for different information arrangements and information types, including organized and semi-organized information.","There are couple of things I could do without about the snowflake is it's doesn't uphold unstructured information stacking it's just help the design and semi structure information. Furthermore, other one is it's just help the mass stacking records so it's hard for a little size documents stacking or including exactly couple of segments it."
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Joey M.",,5,By far the best SQL tool out there. The interface is so incredibly smooth and simple not too much stuff crowding your view like other SQL clients typically have. Does this all while maintaining better features like the ability to look back at historical data using time travel or other big data manipulation functions for flattening or expanding data.,Would be cool to have a desktop application rather than being solely web based. Nothing wrong with the web app at all but I suppose just more of a personal preference.
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Castro K.",Associate Software Developer,3,"The best that I like about snowflake is that it is a Data Platform as self managed service. Where I don't need care about updates, installation and other stuffs.",We can only use this in the cloud. I feel that it is a limitation atleast for me. Since this is not a packaged software. I can't install it on my local Machine.

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Paranjothi M.",,4.5,"It delivers fast, easy-to-use and flexible data storage, processing, and analytics. which helps us to have the output in short time and easy to understand for others","Don't have nothing has of now, they have improved much with every new version releases and It will be much easier if we have beta version released for public like 6 month before."
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Suraj J.",Lead Engineer,4.5,User interface is very user friendly and easy to learn for new people. Quick and fast query execution.,Everything thing is good except in new ui it looks likm more complicated
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Joshua L.",BDA,5,"I like the UI/UX, and ease of use of the application. It's really intuitive and provides great use cases.","There's not much to dislike, maybe just add additional funcitionality."
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Cristian B.",Business Development Representative,4,Customer support. One of the reps was/is responsive when helping me upload the data.,It could be somewhat easier to use for a person who isn't experienced in such.
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SAICHINMAY T.",IT intern,5,"Snowlight is where it's at for me regarding fast searches and clear visualization.

It's beneficial to have access to numerous tabs and searches at once. The data point can be queried from a variety of databases that are supported.","The default user interface is my go-to. It's much too complicated, the new one. Problems with introducing new features and explaining their purpose often arise. Plenty of different interfaces offer built-in support for SnowFlake or inexpensive or even free supplementary programmes that add support for it."

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Sarguru R.",Test Lead,4.5,"As a daily snowflake user, the best part that I see about the snowflake is user friendly and high performance. It's faster and scalable based on the load. No maintenance required. It works well with JSON based functions and queries.",Unstructured data is not supported. Few complex queries are not properly executed. Cost wise it is little higher than other cloud based solutions.
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Elf C.",,4.5,No need to create indices on every table. The way they store data makes it easy to retrieve data quickly.,Only have web UI. The web worksheets lack some ability to do multi-tab development. And searching tables when haveing multiple database may be hard.
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Namanjeet S.",Business Intelligence Engineer,4.5,"Its virtual warehouse architecture allows users to create and manage multiple virtual data warehouses for different workloads, while its automatic scaling feature ensures that resources are allocated as needed to support the workload.","Difficulties with complex query optimization or data modeling in Snowflake, which can lead to longer processing times or higher costs"
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Akhil P.",engineer,4,It is very fast to query data. It has lots of integrations.,The ability to save worksheets could be better. The syntax is a little confusing.
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Elie M.",,4.5,Consolidated updated tables of data to pull from into Tableau,Not always super user friendly - requires SQL to pull data
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Kenneth L.",,4.5,"I stepped into a role where I was not informed I needed to use a database/warehouse. I spent 7+ years writing SQL for Teradata data warehouses so I wasn't new, but suddenly I had to code in a new platform.

I found that the editor remembered my code I had last run, the error messages were helpful, the line-numbering structure was effective. I could quickly edit pre-written SQL pieces, debug them and correct them without any trainings or ""Snowflake specific"" guidance","Snowflake is easily reached via a browser, but that ease can be deceptive. DBA's can lock out sections of the database from users (Which is good) but then individuals jumping on can believe that the data doesn't exist, almost to a militant level. Something about the ease of access makes them feel like they know everything about the database.

It's not a terrible negative, but having to explain over and over that ""there is more, but you don't have access"" was a difficult challenge."

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Sydney K.",Analyst,4.5,Snowflake has a lot of features such as data masking and secure sharing.,The web interface is not as nice as other software.

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Himanshu B.",CEO,5,"Snowflake's architecture is designed to automatically scale resources up or down based on demand, making it a great choice for businesses that experience fluctuating data volumes.","Snowflake can be relatively expensive, particularly for smaller businesses or those with lower data volumes. The pricing model can also be complex, with charges for storage, compute usage, and data transfer"
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Sunny J.",Lead Cloud Security Architect,4.5,Integration with lacework allows me to consume lacework data in a better way. Better than lacework CLI and Lacework LQL,No option to analyse an object or entity. Entity is a json object and the way it is displayed in the output is not helpful
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Dhruv S.",,4,"Snowflake is a DB , where I can have all the relevant data in the form of tables at one place, and it not only allows me to write SQL in an efficient way to analyze data, but it has additional features like - intelligent suggestion, saving queries as worksheets, which I like the most. On top of that it's easy to integrate tools like salesforce, tableau and clari with it.","Though it's one of the best RDBMS out there, but it doesn't allow to have code blocks in single worksheet, and hence if I'm having 2 or more SQL statements in same worksheet, and I've to run one of them, I have to select whole query and press run, if we would have option to have code blocks, it would be more easier."

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Jenna M.",Merchant Experience Partner,5,"It pulls information that is not always available in other systems like Mode/Sigma and Tableau. I trust the data from Snowflake more than most, and I like to use it because I know that the information is what I need.",Getting the data you are trying to research can take an incredibly long time. I have often given up after 20 minutes of waiting for data to pull and moved on to another system because I don't have all the time in the world.
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Henry C.",,4.5,"It has granular permissions to allow specific users to access their specific data

- It has a complete API to access data using code.

- It has a cool UI, handy and easy to use.","Lack of support for unstructured data. Snowflake only supports structured and semi-structured data.

- So far, I havent noticed the lack of another features for my daily use."
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Deshmukha S.",,4,"in snowflake i like it's auto resume and auto scale feature, it's data scale feature is also best, data security feature in snow flake is also excellent.","ui/ux is not so good, does not support unstructured data, viewing meta data without querying data is not possible"
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Catherine C.",Senior Account Manager,5,"The experience using Snowflake has been excellent; I love its ability to store large amounts of data and make it easy to visualize, analyze and generate reports useful for the organization's business decision-making. I also like that it is cloud-based, so there is no need to install programs to use it, and it does not interfere at all with the performance of our computers; its performance during analysis is high-speed. I love that it integrates useful features for safeguarding stored data, such as SecuredEncryption and Data Masking, and it also integrates many updated SQL functions. It is a fantastic tool.","The data to be loaded must be structured or semi-structured; for now, it does not support the loading of unstructured data and might be inconvenient for some as it somehow influences its cost."
G2.COM,Verified User,,3,"For anyone that has used other tools like Redshift, it is a joy to think more about scaling workloads through different warehouses than by knowing the complete inner workings of Indexing & Sharding.

Their Data Exchange and Marketplace is top notch as well, giving both easy access to data but also a great ability to share data with others.

User access and management was quite nice with easy SSO setup.","My main disappointment was with their support. We had an issue as soon as we signed a contract and it was about billing which seemed to be pushed off with no urgency and still not completed. Something like this I would have expected to be resolved within days has taken months.

The interface is a little clunky and I know there is a new Snowsight interface but to be honest it isn't even as good as the clunky older interface in my opinion."
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Gayathri E.",Consultant,4,"Robust and scalable engine, Easy database maintenance, data cache helps to run the reports on top of snowflake objects, built-in function for easy data transformations.",Snow-pipe integration some time doesn't work based on the even trigger; The task functionality can be improved by having a dedicated UI on the snowflake page; this help to visualise the scheduling better.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Since snowflake is a cloud platform, many of the connection issues I would typically jump through was not an issue. They have a lot of features and SQL commands that make database management easy. I also like the ability to share data without loading the data into my account from another.","There isn't anything I dislike, but there is one improvement I would like to see happen. It would be great if they would incorporate inline editing for tables."
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Adal M.","Data Analyst.
",4.5,"Secure database.

Large amount of data being processed on a daily basis.

SQL query.

Data points collected through pipeline.

Filter data points through SQL queries.

Flexible disparate computing models.","Missing a function to execute multiple queries from a canvas.

There is no autocompletion support for table names or SQL syntax."
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Giovani M.",Product Analyst,5,I love snowsight usage for quick queries and visualization and also the quickness and easily scallable data warehouse solutions. It is the best all-round data warehouse I've used and has multiple small features that make the whole better.,"I think snowsight data visualization tools are a bit limited, and we should have other dataviz options like change colors, stacking bar charts etc. Also better search replace options on notebooks."
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Sonali A.","Senior Data Engineer
",5,It is very easy to learn and use and integrates easily with different ETL tools,It is not supporting unstructured data as of now
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Hayden J.",Business Development Specialist,5,"It is the only database program large enough to show respectable performance; moreover, its user profile can be adjusted to suit the user's specific requirements for data synchronization and general data generation and can even automatically generate an advantage or disadvantage depending on how things are stored. We could build a complete picture of each user by tying the system code to a customer feedback loop.","Honestly, I think it's costly; I understand that data is necessary for innovative research, but the cost is sky-high."
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Hanan A.",Lead Data Engineer,3.5,"easy to use, can run query for testing, workspaces",the syntax is different from what I used before
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Himanshu S.",Data Analyst,4.5,The thingh I like the most about Snowflake platform is it's easy practises for database administration and data extraction. The application also includes a number of protected access-based requests that keep data secure and away from external threats.,The main problem I personally faced while using this platform is it's difficulty to get data onto this platform automatically by configuring data engineering and task configuration. There are also various more data preparation capabilities available through the same interface.
G2.COM,Verified User ,,5,Ease of setup and linking to underlying table,Chains can be a bit hard to understand but was an easy setup for our Eng team
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Carlos M.",Ingeniero de software intermedio,4.5,The way that Snowflake integrates own algorithms with the recipes used in Data Iku is a great way to obtain value from any data source. Also the processing time is drasticly reduced this helps to save some money by paying for used time only,"Having SQL Queries and having to migrate those scripts to Snowflake could be a lot of work; knowing that SQL is one of the most used languages, there is no way to translate those queries to Snowflake easily"
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Verified User",,5,"Has a web Based, intuitive interface that is easy to use if you are familiar with SQL and allows complex queries. SnowFlake is easy to interface with multiple and different types of data sources. Specifically, we needed to upload CSV files automatically. Python integration made it easy for our application, where a lot of data comes from production systems that only generate CSV files that are otherwise hard to make part of big data without complex software integration. There are a lot of interfaces out there that support SnowFlake either native or have cheap/free add-on packages. Also integrated nicely with node-RED.","Since the payments are based on ""warehouse usage"" the initial bill can get quite high as during testing, a lot of the uploads and searches are run multiple times to optimize. Cost came down quickly once we were in ""use"" mode."
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Verified User",,5,"The UI(Snowsight) has code completion, and it is easier to share queries with colleagues. It also maintains query history",It doesn't have charts that can easily help assess the integrity of data
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Verified User",,5,Solid query performance and easy to use and straightforward UI. I like that it has a wide selection of integrations. We use Snowflake with Fivetran and dbt and it works great.,"I'm still not 100% sold on the updated user interface. I find myself going back to the classic console, but I think that's probably just a personal preference that I will need to get over."
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Verified User",,4.5,"Ease of use for people with basic sql knowledge, OLTP and OLAP under same roof, auto scaling","Cost, limitations of stored procedure unless JavaScript is chosen as a language"
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Verified User",,4.5,Columns and rows are very well set up. They are easy to read and understand. The gaps between each column and row are perfect we can say. Cannot think of anything that needs to be made better here,Sometimes the data is not up to date. Would be useful to have the data to be updated instantaneously. Not sure if this is possible but it could be a good target for improvements.
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Sachin M.",Senior Consultant,5,"No need to setup the infrastructure, With just 3-4 clicks, you get the account in your Cloud and get $400 credit for next 60 days. This enables all the functionality and we play with any functionality on this trial version.

Native support for loading semistructured data

Data is automatically encrypted at rest and in transit

Automatic partitioning and Clustering and compression

Automatic versioning, Time Travel, and Fail-Safe

Provides Cross Cloud replication","Snowflake is still in the very early phase of supporting the Delta table functionality. Moreover in Replication, we are supposed to replicate one Database at a time, But what if we have multiple databases in Account we need to replicate each and every Database manually. Account level replication should be there. Also Snowpipe is there but near real-time , waiting for snow pipe streaming."
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Leung Jun C.",Ingeniero de software,4.5,"It provides us with an analytical database for large data sets.

Row-level data storage and security.

Access management and governance.

Ability to resize the number of nodes in each cluster for optimal performance.

Built-in support for semi-structured data such as JSON.

Time travel feature that allows you to go back to an earlier stage of your data.","The pay-per-use model allows an involuntary exponential cost growth.

There is not much scope and support for unstructured data."
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Lee S.",Software Test Engineer,4.5,"Snowflake gives us the ability to work across multiple tabs and queries.

Cloud-based data storage

It uses standard SQL, which is great because we don't have to learn a new language.

It provides great ease of access to different levels of users throughout the organization.

Easy to execute certain queries by highlighting certain parts of the code.

Data security and governance.","Limitation with unstructured data.

Complicated billing."

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Franck L.",Data Sleek Founder,5,The easy and quick away to change the compute power for your SQL queries. I don't think there is anything like this on the market. Unlimitted storage makes Snowflake THE data lake on the market.,The new query interface. I'm not sure what Snowflake was thinking here. I always go back to the original UI. The new one is way too confusing. New features are not always well communicated. I wish there were a page in the account where we can get a summary of new elements and which one is available and active for the current account.

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Jeyanth K.",Associate Software Engineer,5,User-interface and easy to work with an environment,if we have standalone software it could be usefull

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Paulson K.",Senior Product Manager,4.5,"Snowflake has allowed us to consolidate multiple data sources like application databases, product analytics, decision models etc., into one repository. The fetching of report becomes easy and does not strain our master setup",Nothing in particular. Works like a charm for our use cases

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Dhaval R.",SMTS,5,"My organisation consumes Snowflake as the leading service for storing and analysing data points collected from customers and clients. It provides a spotless and straightforward user interface. The ability to work on multiple tabs and queries is wholesome. It also supports different databases users need to select for querying the data point. It also has a separate canvas showing the status of query progress and SQL tree structure of the query with the amount of time each operation takes. Once the query is completed, it provides a download button to save the result. They recently introduced Snowflake Lite, which is also easy to use and valuable.","It doesn't include the feature to run multiple queries from a canvas. Sometimes the queries take longer than usual, and waiting is painful without a progress bar. There is no historical version of the canvas where the queries are written, so once it is lost, it is gone forever. There is no autocomplete feature support for table names or SQL syntax."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Really strong performance and speed, also easy sharing",The only thing I don't like is that you cannot collaborate with teammates on a query
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Snowsight, the new snowflake browser UI, is set up well for quickly drafting queries and has some helpful, albeit basic, visualization tools built in. The python connector API is pretty good too.","A couple of irregularities in setting up the python connector on M1 macs, and some minor bugs in the snowsight ui (forgiveable since it's still pre-release IIUC)"

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Governance is really straight forward and queries run very fast.,Expensive. No transparency on specs of warehouses.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Snowflake is very modern cloud data warehouse which reduces the complexity of designing Analytical data solution.,Snowflake doesn't allow to share a database from one snowflake account to other account which has different cloud vendor and located at different region.
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David O.",Head of Strategic Finance,4,It has good security and also good integrations with several other tools. We used it with Holistics as an SQL extractor and it works great. Is very good at extracting data and very quick to show results.,"In my experience but I think is more of a company policy about security. It would be great if Snowflake has its data extractor or a SQL extractor, it would be very useful."
G2.COM,Verified User,,3.5,Was able to configure and manage via terraform provider,Not all config is available via terraform
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Davi H.",Data Engineer,4.5,What I liked the most was the possibility of building a data pipeline within the tool with the TASKS functions and the integrations with other services such as the AWS bucket,"On the other hand, the tasks service was difficult to have an overview of the entire scenario, especially in execution logs"
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Partik A.",Technical Project Manager,5,"Data sharing, zero-copy cloning, time travel",There is nothing to be disliked about it
G2.COM,Digambar J.,Senior Technical Architect,5,"Snowflake is best for unpredictable workloads or sudden spikes in user queries.

1. Since Compute & storage are decoupled, queries don't get queued for resources.

2. Another killing feature is it has Auto Pause & auto suspend modes which stops consuming credits when no queries are running.

3. Snowflake is an apparent winner compared to AWS Redshift when it comes to maintenance. Almost zero admin tasks everything is taken care of for you. You can either change a warehouse’s size or increase the number of clusters with almost zero downtime seamlessly.

4. As already mentioned it is best in the situations where you get temporary high workloads, so you can increase the compute capacity without increasing storage.

5. Built-in support for Semistructured data like JSON is worth mentioning.

6. Lift & shift from On-prem Relational DW to Snowflake is easy compared to other cloud warehouses.","Complicated Billing. Snowflake’s On-Demand pricing model can be enticing initially, but it can be very unpredictable in the long run, and its cost increases as you go higher. As compared to Snowflake, Redshift has a simple pricing structure based on redshift clusters. Redshift also offers Reserved Instance Pricing, which allows you to unlock 75 percent savings which was the primary driver for switching from Snowflake to ASW redshift for one of our customers."
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Shilpa G.",Operations Manager,4.5,"Snowflake has enabled the team to achieve new goals when it comes to data warehousing and querying data to draw insights. It has an easy-to-use and accessible interface.

Before switching to Snowflake, getting connections and data sanity was a challenge. Its pay per use model allows the optimise allocation and budgets and helps plan better.

It uses standard SQL which is used by most of the team members beforehand and documentation is readily available.","While logging in using the single sign-on, sometimes it takes a high loading time to log in. Navigating across the previous ran queries under the history tab is a bit cumbersome. Not that great at managing unstructured data."
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Yatin G.","Product
",4,"Snowflake allows aggregation of hundreds of databases across different clouds and platforms into one single data warehouse which helps provide customers visibility of all their data across all our products.

It is much more than a database in cloud with massive amounts of features and functionality offered. (high volume data storage and handling, quick response time)","Navigating and querying unstructured data in snowflake is bit of a challenge.

Switching between the data can be made better and we have to save the query snippets for future usage as functionality to create a link for any specific query is not there. Rest everything looks great."
G2.COM,Verified User ,,5,Easy to understand through user guide. Nice gui. Fast results. Additional feature snowsight is an amazing add on.,Every feature i have used so far is great
G2.COM,Verified User ,,5,I enjoy how easy it is to search up different tabs that I'm working on. Another feature I find helpful is Snowflake highlighting the specific syntax or part of the query causing the query to run unsuccessfully.,Snowflake's documentation on its syntax and the examples provided can be confusing and hard to follow. I want Snowflake to provide more detailed and broken-down SQL queries with the matching results for more complicated functions.
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Tony H.",Data Visualization & Reporting Analyst,5,"It is seamless to integrate data from multi-cloud and on-premise repositories.

Automatically prepare, model and visualize data.",I am fully satisfied with Snowflake in terms of features coverage and customization.
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Akshaykumar J.",Senior Software Engineer,4.5,Snowflake provides connectyto SQL DBs and can be used for real time analysis of the dataset. It also provides the secure environment for databases and data with role management.,It does not support to unstructured data. Snowflake does not provide constraints to data. Loading bulk data is challenging in snowflake with use of snowpipes in some cases
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Arpit J.",Salesforce Solution Architect,4.5,"The best part about snowflake is that the same tool could be used for multiple purposes like Data warehousing, processing and analytical capabilities as well. One stop shop.","There should be some out of the box integration options available to fetch and push data to the major crm, erp and other data warehousing tools. This will make life easy."
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4.5,"Snowflake can be based on any of the three major cloud service providers namely GCP, Azure and AWS. So it is easy for organizations to stick to their preferred CSP and avail Snowflake services.",Probably a graphical user interface for developers who want to do data modeling in the Snowflake environment.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,The flexibility in performance is pretty remarkable. Good third-party support. Good SQL improvements.,"Can't use native SQL to build a stored procedure, swapping to Javascript is odd coming from a SQL Server background. Costs can be difficult to control at times"
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Ravi L.",Tax Operations & Technology Analyst,3.5,I pretty much like the integration part where you can connect snowflake to different systems and get the desired output stored in snowflake in the form of tables which also gives you the option to read/write the data at a later stage,"I dislike the processing time. At times snowflake takes a lot of time to run the queries and the interface could be made more user-friendly when it comes to the Selection of schema, role etc"
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Jetender V.",Program Manager,4.5,"1. Easy setup

2. Self-training Videos

3. Can process structured and nonstructured data easily

4. Analytic Database for large datasets

5. Integration with cloud-based reporting",UI interface needs can be improved a lot. It should embed more features from Oracle database.
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Liz G.",Senior Data Analyst,5,"Built in geospatial functions in Snowflake, easy way to search the db, easy way to see parsed json in one click before querying, and all around intuitive to use.","I don't like if you are working and accidentaly swipe to the left it kicks you back to the login screen. Super annoying. Also, when i work in snowsight to share queries when I save it and try to share with someone else it's still blank."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"- Excellent user interface and navigation features in the web portal.

- Easy to log in via SSO (Single Sign-On)

- Users can create unlimited worksheets and works are auto-saved for future use.

- Easy to run SQL queries just by highlighting the portion to execute.

- On the sidebar, we can find database objects like tables present in the dev/prod database.

- When executing complex queries, you can monitor running performance on each node.

- Another app version called Snowsight is available which also includes all features.B83","- Whenever you want to execute a query you have to select it before running.

- Once a worksheet is deleted it's hard to find it back.

- Not easy for fresh eyes. Requires learning or background knowledge before using it.

- It will be really good to have a one-liner description pop-up when we hover a mouse on any button in UI.D815"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Simplicity of use, performance

Almost compatible with every other tools : legacy or new Data tools","nothing, we haven't find, so fare, any limitation to the datacloud platform"
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Okan .",Data Engineer,4,Cloud based database system which has a great interface to develop easily and fast,Cost of implementation and very low level or administration abilities
G2.COM,"
Shiv Dutt S.",IN Enterprisewide Prg Analyst lvl3,4.5,"Performance of the tool, you can perform complex logic calculations on huge volume of data very quickly. At any point of time, you can add/remove servers to increase the performance. Easy to learn and deployment of code.","We have not encountered any drawbacks so far with this tool. The only challenge that we see is direct connectivity with the sources. For example, to pull data from SAP, you need to use a replication tool."
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Andrew S.",Agile Development Software,4.5,"I like Snowflake makes data storage simple and convenient, as well as the ability to query data sets using SQL.

It also supports JSON and Avro for structured and semi-structured data.

You can use the SQL language to write queries.","I would like Snowflake to include the following features:

On the same table, there are many indexes.

PKS or indexed paper.

Snowflake's server and runtime components occasionally malfunction."
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Manzar A.",Software Engineer,4.5,"what I like most about Snowflake is there is no need to optimize and cluster tables it is done automatically in the most efficient way.

Also, it can be hosted on any database, and there is no need to install any dependent service to run snowflake","Two things that I think must be improved are:

1. Sometimes it's server or execution part is not working properly, generally, the issue likes on the Snowflake side.

2. There is no role of indexing or PKS here."
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Peter C.",Account Director,5,"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.","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!"
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Verified User",,4.5,I love the data governance and programming language support for python. We can easily create different schemas for different operations and create roles for users with specific access/permissions.,"It doesn't support primary key constraints, so wherever we want to create a table with unique records we need to build a logic (query) in such a way that will only update the table with unique entries. I personally like the BI (snowsight) it is somewhat unappealing."
G2.COM,"
Verified User",,4,No frills here. Input SQL and get outputs. Easy control of who from the org gets access to what certain databases.,Using Snowflake requires some degree of technical expertise that not all members of a business may possess. Best for folks in at data organization.
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Verified User",,3.5,"We can get the data from AWS, GCP and analyze it on SF.",Faced functionality issues in some cases.
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Kurt H.",,4,Ease of administration and robust uptime.,Cost is quite high compared to competitors.
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Sharath G.",Data Engineer,4.5,"* Storage capacity can run on almost all cloud software

*Scalable everything is in cloud so can add up resources easily

* Performance tuning option

* Security features

* Very good analytical and machine learning option","Snowflake is not supporting unstructured data right now

Bulk load is bit problem

No usage limit company may see some surprise in pricing if they use nore resources"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Easy usage for non-data savvy users and readers,The setup is not as straightforward as the usage
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Rahul B.",Software Engineer L2,5,"Snowflake is the best data warehousing tool in the market it gets all the features as one connects to any cloud Environment like AWS, Azure or GCP to store its data plus the virtual warehouse is pretty fast and its internal micro partitioning feature is also pretty handy.",As it is pretty new to the market there are very few documentation or training to learn this tool also they can add new cloud environment like oracle cloud to the snowflake.
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Muskan C.",Data Engineer / ETL Developer,5,"Everything about it is amazing. It is super fast, computes queries so fast. Can get you more than 6 million rows in less than 5 seconds.

It has the feature of time traveling which lets you go back to a previous stage of your data and it is very helpful.

Since it has the storage and compute separated, it lets you query in a very fast way and maintains different warehouses.

Is very cost-effective as well.

It handles so many things together, handles the security of the data also in the best way.

One should just go for the migration to Cloud and should choose Snowflake","I haven't come across anything till now which I dislike about the product. Although it does not seem to handle unstructured data as of now but seems like it will be included in the future. If that will also be covered, other than semi-structured and structured, it'll be simply awesome!"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Ease of access, one-stop shop for data sharing problems in a financial sector","Perhaps, cost of owning a space is to be thought aboutPerhaps, cost of owning a space is to be thought about"
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David W.",Head of Engineering - Data and Business Intelligence,5,"I like the power and capability of Snowflake, as well as its aesthetic user interface. It's not only a database - with SQL and all you'd expect there - but it also provides tremendous functionality for sharing and controlling access. We've made row-access policies, for instance, to even let clients into their data and only their data. I like the concept of roles which allow us to easily specific access levels to specific pieces of data, I like how we can visualise items from a query within the console, and many, many other things. In short, working in Snowflake is quite pleasant and enjoyable with a great user interface.","I wish the worksheet editor allowed us to search and replace - it seems a little basic this is missing.

I also wish the product would make warehouse recommendations - for clarity, Snowflake pricing is based on the warehouse you use for your work, with a warehouse essentially being CPU, RAM, etc. So, an extra small warehouse is the lowest amount of compute power and, correspondingly, the lowest price. Yet, it's possible for some newcomers to inadvertently run their work in (say) a large warehouse when this costs more money. Or, conversely, maybe we're too worried about cost and we're causing a complex query to take excessive time to run. It'd be nice if Snowflake itself gave some advice around queries - e.g. you run it, and it says ""hey, if you did this on a small warehouse it would have taken only 0.2ms longer but would have been cheaper"" or ""this query took 25s to run. If you used an XL warehouse it would have completed in under 2s"" or something like that.

It'd also be nice if Snowflake SQL supported string concatenation with the + symbol like T-SQL."
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Todd G.",Data Analyst,5,"It could churn through data so fast, which is nice in a data warehouse tool. I wasn't the only one either in our company there were probably 20 analysts or more doing simlar things to what I was doing and it rarely missed a beat.",The thing that I didn't like about it was the fact that the only interface that we had to interact with it with was online. There were other ways but they were build directly from snowflake.

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Dr Bradley I.",Enterprise Architect-Data,5,"It turns lots of source data into SSoT and feeds many data consumption tools, and potentially shares data with many other New Zealand Government organizations in a copy-less clone.",I am looking forward to unstructured data capability as it is restricted to structured and semi-structured data.

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Arpan s.",System Engineer,4.5,"The best thing i like about the snowflake is its supports both share disk and share nothing architecture.it is a centralised based storing cloud database and its support all the new cloud services like AWS,Azure,GCP.","The best thing i like about the snowflake is its supports both share disk and share nothing architecture.it is a centralised based storing cloud database and its support all the new cloud services like AWS,Azure,GCP."

G2.COM,Srinivas P.,Engineering Manager,4,"Easy to set up and use

- Easy to scale with virtual warehouses

- Storage and compute resources are separated

- Supports structured and semi-structured data such as JSON and Avro

- Easy to write queries as it follows the SQL dialect","- No support for local development testing, hard to implement unit tests to validate application functionality that integrates with snowflake

- Switching warehouses is confusing

- SQL editor should support auto-complete and highlight features

- Compilation times for complex queries are high; analysts need to have some basic idea of partitioning data."

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Verified User",,5,The separation of compute and storage and the flexibility in being able to control costs. Snowflake role hierarchy is also a very nice feature that allows for a flexible yet robust privilege hierarchy.,"It would be nice if Snowflake offered a cost breakdown per user. Having the resource monitors is nice, but having the ability to see who is utilizing compute would make cost management a lot nice."

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Verified User",,4,"Snowflake has a very clean UI, and it is simple to use. After about a week of playing around, I understood how most of the functionality worked in the tool which saved me so much time.","The biggest issue I ran into so far is that Snowflake doesn't have the capabilty to automatically refresh data in a maternalized view, so the table I created can't be refreshed unless it is a manual process or set up outside of Snowflake."

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John H.",,2.5,Excess of warehouse data/metrics that can be used internally,Customer service is not the best and can be slow

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Verified User",,5,"Time travelling and fail safe, good ui,IAM service",Can't search text and do operation on it (like edit) in a query available on snowflake.
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Larry G.",Data Analytics Engineer,4.5,Very scalable and easy to integrate with my pipelines and visualization tools. Also very robust functions and functionality,User and profile management can be be a pain
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Verified User",,4.5,"Snowflake is reliable, and pretty fast for most workloads. The best feature is you can save some money by using only the amount of computer that is needed.",Occasionally Snowflake takes a poor query optimization path. This is not unique to Snowflake though.
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Amit G.",,5,"ease of use, cloud based, quick onboarding, excellent integrations","Cost is an issue, getting skilled resources is a challenge"
G2.COM,Michael S.,"Director, Business Intelligence and Web Services",5,"Snowflake gives you the opportunity to start small and grow quickly, while not overspending up front. It has completely transformed our ability to deliver analysis of large data sets. The product is continuously improving. We are able to use many different tools to interface with Snowflake and have yet to run into a challenge we could not address.","New features are released only in the West Coast region, and it takes a long time before everyone else can use them."
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Bhagyalakshmi L.",Software Engineer,5,"Lot of success in storing large amounts of structured data and managing compute for fast queries across the data lake. As of today, we currently have ~50TB of data in Snowflake and hundreds of tables. Snowflake handles storage and compute efficiently. Snowflake can work well with large amounts of data with auto micro partitions of your data and you can also add clustering to improve usage.",Large amounts of data might not work well if it’s not partitioned and regularly pruned out. We are considering other options for real-time use cases.
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Mikayla S.",Customer Service Representative,5,I like how detailed oriented and easier it is to be able to look more into customer's information when it comes to verifying information traces of customers using DoorDash.,"I didn't have access for a while until now. There isn't anything to dislike about snowflake yet, since it's a new program that I'm using."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Friendly GUI, Powerful cloud Cababilities",pricing sometimes is high for small cmopanies

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Sanjana P.",Software Development Engineer,4.5,With snowflakes there's always encryption-on with data in rest and days in transit. It is one of the best platforms to ensure data security while aiding unification of data from data warehouses and data lakes.,"Higher costs when compared to its competitors. Also, the performance optimization alerts and notifications are way lesser compared to other cloud data warehouses."
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Giridhar P.",Sr. Data Engineer,4.5,Snowflake access is an easy process overall. The objects/tables creation DDL is much similar to a SQL server/MySQL syntax. Any number of tables with any number of elements could be created in your snowflake workspace. The analytical queries could be executed on top of the snowflake in a very efficient and smooth fashion with tremendous performance throughput. The flexibility of datatypes and having the string representation of any type of element is the most conducive flexibility of snowflake.,"Snowflake queries and structure need some training to get acquainted with. The extract process has special syntax that needs separate skill.

Some of the table constructs in snowflake could be complex in nature. Different role exerts different restrictions on the table objects and not every user will have access to all the tables in snowflake."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,i like snowflake sql syntaxes (10x better than MYSQL) and the query speed. Storage is also super cheap since they charge by compute usage like a utility bill. Its not laggy and i can share my sql sheets easily with others,"I do not like the UI experience for users, I end up using pycharm or dbeaver and connect to snowflake to write my sql queries. yes, the new snowsights is better than the classic console, but it also took away some of the things I enjoy about classic console. I like the ability to access the accounts (admin related stuff) / datawarehouses pages on the same sql page"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Storage and compute power are separated so you can scale and manage performance levels as necessary. Integrates well with Tableau and Matillion ETL to form a robust software stack.,"Whilst the different user roles help control permissions, it is easy to accidentally run an operation with the wrong one. New features are incrementally rolled out but would be nice to see the time-travel feature work over longer periods."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,I like that you only pay for what you use and it makes it easier for people starting their own businesses to have a reliable database without having to buy and pay for a server.,Not very user-friendly. It's hard to find table names and key words (like no autocorrect options). I also don't like not being able to use keyboard shortcuts like ctr+e and ctrl+H
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Dani S.",Product Manager,4,"Lots of functions, flexible SQL, easy to use interface, I like the new visualization tools. I don't talk to customer service, but teams seem to think They're very responsive. They're becoming our default database in the company. Admin has good access to query history.","The Documentation for functions is sometimes worded confusingly and does not provide a lot of examples. Incredibly tough to upload CSV files into tables, have to use SE files through AWS, very few straightforward ways to go about it locally within a snowflake.

Sometimes active queries suddenly disappear.

Need dev/admin permissions to check historical info such as previously run queries."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Data pulling and querying is very good and it also can be connected to different other tools like tableau and python for the visualization and the analysis of the data. A very user friendly interface which does not take long to get used to it. I like that it's very fast and efficient.,Does not allow the user to use up the whole space for query writing and sql auto formatting is also not available. It would be great if the top menu ribbon can be minimized

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Derek P.",Business Intelligence Analyst,5,"My favorite feature of Snowflake is the ability to scale production with ease. In addition, the query editor (worksheets) is a fantastic tool that enables users to interact with the database.","There is nothing to dislike about the product other than the ambiguity involved with the pricing. In addition, host information was slightly tricky to find."

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"The ability to scale warehouses according to business needs.

The ease with which views and connectors can be built.

Great community support.","Snowflake doesn't have a native offering with cloud providers like Google, aws or azure.

Bulk loading is a bit difficult.

The next generation of data is going to be unstructured and semi structured. Snowflake must look into this domain as it currently does not offer much in this niche"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Snowflake expedites the process of data querying in the best possible ways. It helps us out by:

- finding compilation errors immediately

- providing great functions

- being insanely fast","I wish it had a dark mode!

The linking process with Tableau is a little finicky, but on the whole, is a very good system. I do not have huge complaints about this product."
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Wai Yan H.",ICT Presales Engineer,4,"I liked its unique architecture, and also about security.",I disliked not supporting hybrid. Because our customer only need hybrid.
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Verified User",,4,The most exciting part for me is to use this new thing and get more experienced on it,"For now after reading some articles, there is nothing that i dislike!

But sure I'll share my thoughts with you after getting deeper."

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Verified User",,4.5,"I usually use Snowflake with SAS and PowerBI,

It is Awesome and very smooth with all microsoft products.

Connectivity and refresh timing with PowerBI is phenomenal.","I really dont recall and dislike, but still i would recommend that screen size/Terminal size can be increased for writing SQL queries and result view window also can have some features like traversing to next/previous records, Sorting by variables, choosing top N records etc."

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Fatehi R.",Data Engineer,2.5,I liked the accuracy of the processes and the ease of use,There are some features not powerful need to be enhanced

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Priyanshu S.",Associate Quality Engineer,4,"Using and Working with Snowflake is Like Cake Walk if You have Some Knowledge on Databases and SQL/Oracle. Snowflake Provides an Intensive Set of Connector APIs Such as Spark connector, Python connector, etc., and Javascript Language-Based Stored Procedure Support. Snowflake is a Virtual Data Warehouse So You Don't Need to Worry about Managing things Physically or Hectically. Performance of Query Execution is Incredible even for larger Datasets.","The Only Thing I Dislike about Snowflake Data Warehouse is Inability of Inferring Schema of Data Files Reading from Stage Area Such as Reading CSV, Json, Parquet, ORC etc from S3."
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Sanjit P.",Software Engineer 1,5,"We are using Snowflake for pushing data metrics and storing them in collaboration with AWS infra DB. The table organization and querying on database tables are smooth. It also captures the history of all your query and also provides an SQL auto-completion feature. It has a beautiful syntax color highlighting, which makes things readable. A new interface is now available, which offers full account search, chart visualization, SQL autocomplete, dashboards, and much more features.",Nothing I can think of right now. Snowflake works great for my team and me.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"The way data are stored, and the output is displayed.",It is hard to recover and use the deleted data.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Easy interface, hassle free data ingestion from cloud storage, better warehouse performance",Query on external data on cloud is slow.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Architecture explanation was most helpful.,More insights and use cases missing. Customer cases demonstration will be really helpful.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Speed of processing data and executing queries,Learning curve is high and can be difficult to learn the structure of how data is stored and accessed
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Almog S.",VP Data & Research,4.5,"It is fast, has no maintenance and operation around the tool, and has the ability to spin as much a WH you want in a click","not supporting yet Python UDF, support some time take some time to reply"
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Rahul G.",Senior Associate,5,"1. Speed of the query execution and updating the query

2. Data migration

3. Data security

4. Data uploading",Nothing as such I think this is perfect mindpiece.
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sonu K.",Business Intelligence -Data Quality Analyst,4,No issue with the memory failure and pipeline failure due to the size of the warehouse,Credit limit expiration process..need to be more streamlined
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Ronak A.",Technology Lead,4.5,"Snowflake is very easy to use and scale-out.

I have seen my employer get miraculous insights into its Digital Supply Chain data.

Its seamless and secured integration with ready-to-use adapters with ERP like SAP makes it yet more demanding.

The dashboard and customizations are very handy and data warehousing becomes a cakewalk with proper implementation on Snowflake.","Costing can be a concern for large organizations as other providers like Azure, AWS, or GCP can provide cost-effective platforms with their offerings."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"The fact storage and processing power are separated is so powerful, the cloning and time travel features are incredibly useful also.","The UI could do with improving, however there are tools like DBeaver that sit on top that solve this issue."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The content and the flexibility and pricing for this products I like most.,I did not see any dislike about snowflake
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"The maintenance of the Data Warehouse is done by snowflake itself, yiu no longer need admins to apply patches and perform upgrades","No primary key and foreign key concept, that could be a real bummer."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Integrating snowflake as a data store in the ingestion step is very simple with multiple services,The cost is the only drawback I've noticed
G2.COM,Verified User,,3.5,"clean interface, easy to navigate databases and find tables, tabbed systems",the process to switch roles/databases/schemas can be a bit cumbersome at times
G2.COM,Sandeep S.,Sr Data Analyst,5,"Snowflake is part of the modern BI stack, there are lot of inbuilt functionalities that makes complex data warehousing problems simple","The UI can be little more better compared with other warehousing tools such as Redshift , bigquery"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"well established api with other software and business tools

fast query speed

advanced analytical functions","worksheet syncing issue when you have two of the same sheets open

organization of worksheet is not great

python and r api has too much dependency"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The ability to easily query data and go through schemas,I think Snowflake is amazingly fast and easy to use.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Snowflake is a growing Data Warehouse Storage and Analytics Technology which will capture a big Data Analytics market soon. Snowflake is a cloud-based technology that has reduced a significant burden from the customer in terms of hardware maintenance, replacing failed components, patch upgrade, 24*7 DBA support, etc.

The best about Snowflake is its unique architecture. I worked on many DW Tools and found it better, among others with below reasons -

1. No hardware maintenance (it reduces Datacenter maintenance cost)

2. Architecture is simple and easy to understand

3. Cost is directly dependent on the system usage, less load - Payless and vice-versa.

Most of the DBA work automated with its architecture -

1. Statistics collection

2. Query Optimization

3. Taking backup and maintenance

4. Warehouse auto-suspend and auto-resume.

Cool features added in Snowflake -

1. Data Sharing

2. Data Marketplace

3. Data Masking

4. Zero-Copy Cloning

5. Time Travel

6. Fail-Safe

7. Structured and Unstructured data Storage and reading capabilities

8. And many more features

I would surely recommend the companies that if you are planning to switch from the current DW env to another platform, do your POC on Snowflake once to know its benefits.

Snowflake provides good customer support.","Currently, Snowflake has provided alerts set up only for resource monitoring if they can add the capabilities to generate custom alerts like sending notification on database size threshold increased, etc., through monitoring tool."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Snowflake is highly scalable. The interface provided by snowflake is very comfortable to use. The query rofiles give very important insights.,There are still some internal errors which frequently come so the environment is not very stable as yet. PLSQL stored procedures are not yet provided.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"Ease of use, lack of maintenance, infinite scale",Cost management on snowflake isn't trivial.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Cloud storage, Performance, Pay as you use model, new updates, events, integration with other tools, SQL Compatible, Visualization tools, marketplace","Stored procedures, functions and other elements still use java syntax, No UI Downloadable Client, No dark mode in UI"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"Snowflake made it so easy to connect with data providers in such a cost-effective way. Besides all other offerings, analytics data processing is the USP of a snowflake. With scalability, snowflake solves the problem of data storage","ODBC connectors need to improve. also, time to time, product updates need to be communicated in a channeled way to keep knowledge up to date"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Easy to use and easy to learn without even prior knowledge to warehouse,Need to understand how it is configured with other tools
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valentin c.",Business Intelligence Developer,4.5,I really like it's performance and speed. Also the UI is very intuitive. Another strong point is that you don't have to spend time and money on its administration. The storage is not a problem anymore and with snowflake you can load data instantly once it landed in your bucket.,I don't like that it do not support multiple cluster keys on hte same table (can not support multiple indexes on the same table).
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Pranav D.",Digital Specialist Engineer,4,The SDKs are very easy to integrate and use.,The user interface is not that much user friendly.
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Pavan Kumar Y.",Senior Data Engineer,4,"Its features like separation of storage and compute, on the fly scalable compute, data sharing, data cloning, and supports may languages to connect with.",Only supports JavaScript for stored procedures
G2.COM,Priyank S.,Data Analyst III - Python Developer,4,"Snowflake documentation is straightforward. API is easily accessible with python. The GUI can handle a whole lot of data in multiple sessions.Snowflake can support unlimited concurrency with its unique multi-cluster, shared data architecture. This allows multiple compute clusters to operate simultaneously on the same data without degrading performance. Snowflake can even scale automatically to handle varying concurrency demands with its multi-cluster virtual warehouse feature, transparently adding compute resources during peak load periods and scaling down when loads subside.","There is nothing much to dislike about it. There some limitations with concurrent runs, but those are addressed."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Powerful and feature rich data platform for industry with compliance needs. Continuous innovations with new features such as Snowsight and Snowpark.,Flexibility to select compute type for running data science models in Snowpark such as compute with GPU.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,This product is great and definitely is something that I would highly recommend to other companies. I feel that their support is great and it is something that has made our company able to manage our data more effectively at this time. I feel that in a pandemic situation we were able to share and analyze our data more efficiently with Snowflake and do this remotely at times which helped us not interrupt the flow of business at this time.,Nothing - This product was great and has worked well for us. We have not had any major problems and if we experience any issues support is ready to help us very quickly.
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Raj R.",SDE 2,4.5,"It is a helpful tool, it's breathtaking for important tasks, despite having cloning and information sharing features, it functions optimally without a good deal of effort, despite an excellent query efficiency, it's quick despite having many combinations, along with a web user interface that is stable.","I've no reservations about Snowflake, but it is an outstanding product with many helpful features, many of which do well. I've an excellent result."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Snowflake has allowed us to streamline the most important pieces of information from our production databases to organize and visualize them in a way that is accessible to our entire organization. As a manager working cross functionally Snowflake has helped me answer technical questions about our schema without assistance from a tech lead while helping me organize my marketing analytics and insights for both internal and external products. The SQL writer is so easy to use and the ability to connect to so many disparate data sources in one place is an incredible value add to our DaaS and reporting.,"I've found that it's easier to update account settings using SQL than from the GUI. This has caused confusion for less technical stakeholders on my team (finance, etc.). In general these areas could use some TLC to be more accessible. It would also be helpful to have clearer financial breakdowns of usage."
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Dominik R.",,5,Performance and scalability. Pay as you go price model doesn't require large upfront invests makes it a great fit even for smaller companies. Feature completeness and still constant innovation with further great features.,I thought long about it but couldn't find anything in this category.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,We are able to store semi-structured (chat messages) data at scale and able to parse them out easily as well on query. At Drift. The data team also looks to store the raw data before we transform and the variant data type in Snowflake is key to ensuring we can parse the data without having to backfill or do major code changes.,The Clouds Services cost structure in Snowflake billing is a little less transparent and customers would like to know how we get charged or why charges vary for same workloads on different days.
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Scott V.",,5,"Separation of storage and compute make it so simple to manage capacity and ensure fast response times for all warehouse workloads. We can have analysts on one warehouse, another warehouse servicing our API, and yet another one to serve up customer dashboards, all working on the same data without affecting the response times of each other.","Enterprise account required for clustering, which not only increases the number of credits you will use but also drives up the cost per credit. The community forums are not that active and are a hassle to post to because of needing to have a support account that is different than your regular account. No ability to share data with consumers that have an account in a different region."
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Tim C.",Principal Business Analyst,5,"It just works. The advantage of this environment is that there is minimal administrative work required to support rapid developments and users of all types. Disk provisioning , performance concerns are a thing of the past.",This is largely a CLI environment. Many activities require writing code.
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Mark P.",Technical Solution Architect,5,"Tri-Secret Secure : customer held key ensures that service representatives can not ""see"" our data.

Dynamic Compute Sizing : we can resize our compute resources (known as snowflake warehouses) to react to needs of the Business or to minimize cost.

Replication : we can replicate entire databases from one region (or cloud) to another easily and very quickly which is important with financial services data.","Account Management : while we can see our consumption (compute and storage) online, we don't have access to see our current credit balance and forecasted usage.

Compute Resource Rationalization : we don't have the insight into whether the sizing of our compute resources are appropriate (too large or too small). Sizing becomes more of an art than a science."
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Verified User",,5,Separation of storage vs compute and very transparent billing,Performance with visualization tools is not the best
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Verified User",,5,It is web-based and is intuitive. There are support forums to use also.,Nothing as it gives me everything I need to be successful with my position.
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Verified User",,5,"Its ease of use. The solution feels natural for people that have worked with relational databases before because of its implementation of basic SQL. However, combining structured and semistructured data in a query is extremely simple, and the performance is impressive. You can pull millions of rows in an instant by just setting the correct warehouse size.","There is little to dislike about Snowflake. Its performance and ease of use are incredible. However, Snowflake can still be considered a newcomer to the market, so the breadth of solutions that integrate and communicate with Snowflake is somewhat reduced compared to other products (SQL Server, Oracle, Redshift, etc.)"
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Verified User",,5,Snowflake is the easiest cloud data mart I’ve used.,Snowflake does not allow you to extend the length of table names - you have to know what you’re looking for
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Aaron G.",,5,"The biggest benefit to using snowflake for us has been the ease of use when it comes to data management and tool interaction. When we migrated from Redshift we also saw a huge increase in performance due to the improvement in the way that concurrency impacted our looker instance. I highly recommend!

The administration tooling/UI in snowflake is amazing. I don't need to have highly trained database admins handling everything. Its easy to understand and work with functionally makes it much more accessible to less technically skilled individuals.",The biggest issue we are facing now is implementing snowpipe. Some of the problems has been due to the lack of documentation on how errors are handled.

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Svetlana N.",,5,The Snowflake data warehouse uses a new SQL database engine with a unique architecture designed for the cloud,"I like this tool, nothing that i can think about. So far so good"

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Vivek P.",Senior data engineer,4.5,"Snowflake is better than snow

decoupling of data and compute

time-traveling and data backup

Auto scalability.

Software as a service no need to maintain hardware or software

Supports cloud provider like Azure, AWS, google cloud

pay as use.

Highly tolerant and scalable.

support ODBC JDBC connection

support standard SQL.

Data Virtualization which makes data retrieval so fast across downstream systems.","Not Available for on-premise.

still growing so not large scale community

Data modeling features can be enhanced further.

No Certification or dedicated training program"

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Andries v.",Data Scientist/Engineer,3.5,"Cloud solution is easy to impliment - We had it up and running in an hour or two.

IDE remembers the tabs and queries you had open.

Cheap solution to impliment.

Costing platform is great.","Limited functionality in terms of functions, sub queries and some flexible dynamic tricks that SQL can do , that Snowflake can't."
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Magda M.",HR Advisor,4.5,"The strength of Snowflake is that its SQL is robust and easy to use in a changing environment. Snowflake supports various data sets, both structured and unstructured. That makes climbing much easier, but also more economical.",Speed and mobility could be increased. Snowflake is predicated on a non-PMPP database and may delay automation for temporary loads.
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Verified User",,5,best reliable data warehouse system for modern and robust system,So far i didn't find any negative features on using this application
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Hemant A.",Senior Credit Manager,4.5,"With a genuinely effective database, instead of spending time on retrieval and documentation solutions, you will be able to generate real results with little to no effort in constructing and maintaining your database and little to no time in collecting data. Additionally, when a customer is found, you can now see if they have been ordered, whether they have been ordered, and what procedures are being changed.","Snowflake does not support general table expressions. We make the most of encryption, but we think there's space for development. Also, error messages are often confusing, particularly when a configuration table is added, and the new database ends up doing just that."

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Edric M.",Sales Business Development,4.5,"Snowflake is an amazing system that covers organized and semi-structured information to provide ready-to-use applications including JSON, ORC, XML and other semi-structured information. This allows you to focus on data management instead of functional testing in a database engine that has been developed. Its layout is common to the another SQL frameworks I've been using, and it's relatively simple to use because of the efficient way it looks at the connections between tables.","For fairly complex queries, the response time may be very long; SSIS is connected to its ODBC, but it takes a little longer to get information from Snow Brand. In addition, co-related sub-inquiries are not endorsed."

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Sarah K.",Key Account Manager,4.5,"The Snowflake is easy to install and operate. The ability to immediately move clusters from top to bottom provides great adaptability in terms of achievement and profitability. In my opinion, the best feature of the snowflake should be ""time-travel"". Time journey is a thought of capturing data at a certain time and Snowflake also provides a ""share"" capacity that makes it easier to share data internally. The ability of Snowflake to clone has served us well in our experience.","There is not much to say, but a cloud storage study has shown that Snowflake is one of the various adjustable and scalable data storage solutions on the market."

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Monish K.",,4,"snowflake query analysis , query history metadata & snowflake support","some syntax changes, and the drop downs are some times slow"

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Verified User",,5,"Snowflake is a database and a storage warehouse on the cloud. Since it's scalable on demand, retrieving data through Snowflake Warehouses is lighting fast. All the computing power required to run the SQL queries are taken care by the Warehouse size we choose. If a query is taking too long to run a quick switch to a bigger warehouse does wonders. Migrating and loading data into Snowflake is a breeze too via Snowflake Stages and COPY TO commands.","Snowflake doesn't enforce constraints, especially primary keys. So, care should be taken while doing INSERTs and UPSERTs to maintain data integrity. This lack of this feature is understandable since it's projected more as a storage warehouse."
G2.COM,Marcia g.,IT Consultant,5,"Snowflake has some rugged archive features that make it run easily. It makes reporting questions run on our production environments for a relatively short time. Also, Snowflake comes with a DBA feature that's very helpful for maintenance tasks of a project, such as patches and constant updates. It is easy to customize and it makes operating loads easy to handle from online stores.","In Snowflake, questions don't get a limit size, since the computer power grows with the search volume, implying that we have greatly increased the things that we can check into."
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Brady A.",Information Technology Specialist,4.5,"Snowflake has an interesting architecture that embraces structured and semi-structured data, as it offers ready-to-use applications that include semi-structured data like JSON, ORC, and XML. This will allows you to concentrate more on information management rather than regression testing with the designed-in database engine. The interface is more similar to the other SQL query structures which I have used and is pretty easy to use since there's a way to see connection entre the tables efficiently. It allows us to solves many market issues, from the delivery of our products through to the payment process.","In rather complicated queries, the hit times are quite high. Although SSIS is linked to the ODBC, retrieving information from the snowflake can be a bit sluggish. Also, the correlated sub-queries are not supported."

G2.COM,Eliza R.,Information Technology Specialist,4,"Snowflake offers a great virtual storage space, providing workload, virtual storage and a great general usability. It allows our team to take the initial MS SQL document query from the OLTP databases, transform it into a Snowflake SQL format and operate in seconds or minutes the same request on Snowflake.","In several respects, it is required to use SQL language varies from Redshift, so your team must have some knowledge about it. Also, it often shows some syntax issues and, if you contact the customer support, they are usually pretty slow. Snowflake really needs to improve their technical help for client-identified mistakes."

G2.COM,Sherri W.,Information Technology Specialist,4.5,"When we have all the various data sources in a database warehouse, Snowflake allows us to start looking for connections between both the data sources and the multiple business units. We do this in order to connect all our data quick and effectively. The main cloud architecture provides straightforward integration with many other cloud-centered technology tools, including storage duplication brokers. Also, it comes with very clear documents to support.","The internet front-end is all very well, but if they could add back-end GUI it will boost the Snowflake service even more. Also, when many applications are concurrently in the performance, the probability of lose data rises."

G2.COM,Debera R.,Information Technology Consultant,4.5,"With a really efficient database system, it allows us to spend little time collecting information regarding our data and providing real results without the criteria to build and manage databases, instead of wasting time handling and preserving the solution. Also, it allows us to see when a client has been identified, if an item has been ordered, when it has been demanded and what are the most efficient processes to enhanced our products.","in Snowflake popular table expressions are not supported. We take full advantage of encryption, however we feel there is room for growth here. It is also not often easier to comprehend the error messages, particularly if transient tables are added, all of which is supposed to be done with a new database."

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Matt L.",Product Manager,5,"The auto scaling functionality, and instant flex-ability with 0 down time are amazing. Their query profiler and reliability is also the best we have found. The ability to share data with read only accounts is also very useful to us.",A few issues with the .Net ODBC connector around timeouts of long running queries.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Being fresher in the SQL it guide us how to use the snowflake , eventually month of time help me inquiring data from DB and quite easy to connect any DB to extract financial details for further working.","As of now not identified major dislike , but like to highlight for the improvements , were we start coding it as show pop like google next character or symbol to be used, so it will more helpful for beginner."

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Rakesh K.",Assistant Manager Finance,5,"It takes almost no time to provide the result, The results show us Faster than Instant Noodles.","Nothing as of now. The user experience is really good that I don't find any negative experience to share with, Hoping this will continue to work like this.

Just wanted to continue with Snowflake until we find any error in it, The Snowflake team, for now, all seems good if there is any requirement when the team contacts them they provide a proper solution within a short period of time that.

My SQL was so slow if we awere working them prodivicity was going down as uploading in that & Querying was a very bad experience since the team was looking for a better solution after a lot of analyzing the team figure out Snowflake will be the best option for an organization like Swiggy"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,the best thing about snowflake is it uses smaller disk space and easy to implement in work space and it offer better data quality with good structure and it consists schema is in logical model and also it is web support one can access with minimum internet anywhere any time.,"snowflake is having few dislike as well one is complexity to source query joins,and limitations in data export you can extract up to certain MB,Real time refreshing is required and having single table dimensions."
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George F.",ETL Developer,4.5,I want to start talking about the flexibility of the databases in the cloud. I came from a traditional databases which are installed in a server within the organization and actually the new approach to have a database in the cloud it worth every dollar that could cost. We just started a new project this year which consist in migrating a lot of data from our on premises data warehouse to the snowflake data warehouse. Being able to use almost all the SQL that we had in our database was a really good advantage since we migrated a lot of functions and views too. Now we are integrating snowflake and oracle through an export in CSV files. We push the data to an external s3 bucket then we take it from snowflake.,The database itself is pretty past to operate and you will use almost all the same functions and syntax that we now in SQL.
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Omran A.",DBA,5,data sharing and data security is important for us as well as replications,I have not found anything to dislike abut the product so far
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Shangqing W.",Data engineer,5,the performance of the snowflake is pretty good. And the one step setting is super convenient for small business. Let the BI team can focus on the data analysis.,the real-time streaming data support is inconvenient before pipeline release.
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Hyun Grasso G.",Director,5,Ease of use and maintenance. excellent engineering,I have not discovered anything that I don't like at this point
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The performance is fantastic and administration is simple and intuitive. The separation of compute from storage allows great flexibility and customization.,The UI is a little slow and some SQL functionality isn't available yet.
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Nathan S.",Principal Engineer - Enterprise Data,5,"Quick performance in a data driven world. We needed something that would scale, and snowflake delivered on all of their promises and then some. We were stuck on a more traditional database before and ran into issues of scaling and query performance despite it also being cloud based. Snowflake was able to help us in our realization of putting our customers first and getting insights into data far more quickly.","Some features that have been standard on traditional RDBMS systems haven't been implemented yet, but they are coming. Documentation on a number of features seems to be lacking or non-existent. Some of the community forums are hard to search for and find answers, especially with updated content and as new features are rolled out."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Snowflake is an easy to use modern cloud data warehouse solution built to optimize cost and storage.,There isn't much that I dislike about snowflake. There is a bit of a learning curve.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,I most appreciate the cloud accessibility and ability to access different data sources,I most dislike the web browser UI. It feels underdeveloped from a user stand point - I was very excited to see the preview of the new version coming soon.
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Stephen T.",Cloud Data Consultant,5,able to scale up and down based on load. Can handle json data easily (using variant data type).,"user interface is sometimes buggy (pop ups from left hand panel get ""stuck"")"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"The best feature that I like about Snowflake as a database or data warehouse is the ability to Clone the data at no extra cost, and create Dev, test and Prod environments. the ability to go back in time are few of the best features. Being a develop I'm always fearful of accidentally dropping tables and not actually having backup scares me. but Snowflake eliminates that with features like time travel.","Auto correct or auto complete are few of the features that I would be interested in. But with Snowflake acquiring Numeracy, I'm hopeful to have a lot more query edit features.added."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Snowflake allows many companies expand their data profile into the cloud easily and with a large performance improvement over traditional data warehouses.,The only real thing that annoys me is that F5 refreshes the screen instead of running the query. Simple things.
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Verified User",,5,"Ease of use for non technical users

Access to load data from anywhere with any tool on the market",Personal issue not good at sql so I will have to learn (again)
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Verified User",,5,"true separation of compute and storage, flexibility of spinning up warehouses, pass through cost of the storage. Easy to spin account up. Like the ability to re-size warehouses on the fly without restarting the underlying process","unique SQL functions (not uncommon to any db provider). Heavy scripting to get data loaded, heavy scripting to build out the user groups, roles, grants, etc. around security."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Architecture that provides better Performance requires minimum maintenance,"It's all good, still exploring it so can''t say anything negative yet"
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ankit g.",Mgr. MDM Solutions,3.5,Essentials session was very informative for me as a beginer,"I feel this was the first time and that's why a few things were missing e.g. checkins over limit and am sure it will all be taken care by next time.

Labs can be better.

Solutions demos could have been more technical"
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Cristian C.",Software Engineer,4,Data sharing is easily my favorite aspect of Snowflake.,"I don't like the UI, although it's not the selling point, I wish it looked nicer!"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"The simplicity - store data in one location, but many different users can access this without interfering with one another.",Haven't used it enough to find anything that I dislike about it yet

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Chris D.","Manager, Consumer Analytics & Insights",5,"Snowflake scales easily to meet our demands - no matter how much data we throw at it, no matter how complicated the query, we can solve the problem quickly and effectively. It's an extremely full-featured SQL dialect, and we can use it to do the heavy lifting on a lot of our data science efforts. And finally, the ability to spin up different compute resources for different tasks and avoid contention is a godsend.","The web SQL editor can be a tad flaky at times (no pun intended), though I am excited to see the upcoming version that they just showed off. In general I'd love to get more updates from them about the great work and additions that they are constantly making to the platform; I sometimes discover great new features by accident when I am googling to solve a problem."

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Before Snowflake, you couldn't have it all. You either sacrificed performance or used flat files, sacrificing the benefits of an RDBMS. Snowflake has really figured out how to give you both in a way that's great.","It's almost too open. For an enterprise, the set up for security is very difficult and feels much like a bolted on afterthought."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"regional failover AND cloud service failover as new features, i.e failover from AWS to Azure. Simple to use, secure, and connect.",still missing some standard RMDBS functionality.
G2.COM,Verified User,,3.5,enjoyed a lot of the topics covered overall. It was a good way to increase exposure to the stack of tools we have access to.,"signup / capacity warnings. i didnt get into two sessions my first day that i wanted. the food was not particularly allergen friendly. also please create some breaks! some of the breakout sessions were fairly high level, would have enjoyed more technical/analitycal"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,frictionless.. low maintanence... power packed..,utilities.. some of the features that worksheets has are subpar
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Vinoth1 N.",BI Data Engineer,5,"Cloning and Time Travel options, easy to Intergate with other cloud products.",sometimes error notification are irrlevant
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The ease of implementation and support that we have received has been absolutely valuable,I found nothing that I dislike so far and have truly enjoyed the experience
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,I like the web-UI front end with the ability to still write SQL code.,I had issues with the fact that all column and database names were in upper-case. But one of the experts here helped me out with the issue. It might be good to have an option to use either upper or lower case.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"Performance, easy to learn. Easy scaling is the one feature which made it really appealing.",Nothing as of now. Costing may be more transparent.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,I love that this was developed cloud native.,"Nothing I dislike at all about snowflake so far. There are many features that are rolling out, It will just take time to get things right. They have tremendous support and will work with you to get things on their roadmap if needed."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Snowflake has consistently exceeded expectations in terms of performance and capabilities. Their platform is smooth and intuitive and, above all, fast.","The worksheets can use a lot of work. For example, there's no easy way - to my knowledge - to download a script aside from copy/pasting into a text editor. THere's also no way to save or share scripts across teams, which can be annoying"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,I like the pricing model and simplicity of management and many features.,Snowflake is lack of schema change management and CI tool integration.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Unlimited scalability, ease of management, fast innovation pace. I mean at one point we have thousands of concurrently connected users and it works just fine.","There is nothing to be disliked, it is the best SQL data warehouse on the market right now.."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"Simplicity of the software from setup, usage and overall performance",Roles and permission management can get quickly complex
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Snowflake helps us attract better data talent, and gives us the ability to escape from years of legacy system constraints.",I would have said lack of Google cloud option but just heard that's changed...
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"workload isolation, ease of use, zero setup","no strong dislikes, it is a really strong product
"
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Miles D.",Business Intelligence Manager,5,Snowflake performs faster than you can imagine allowing me to spend more time helping the business and add value.,"No problem at all, snowflake is great, we love it"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Snowflake data warehouse as whole. The Snowflake dedication to understand and work closely to make sure Snowflake works according to our need.,"Snowflake is growing company. There are few features are either yet to support as expected like materialized views or stored procedures (even though it exists, it is not up to the expectation yet)"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,The architecture and how it allows our business get value from our data.,Would like to see more consistent performance on live connections with BI tools like Tableau
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Chris D.",,4.5,"Snowflake scales easily to meet our demands - no matter how much data we throw at it, no matter how complicated the query, we can solve the problem quickly and effectively. It's an extremely full-featured SQL dialect, and we can use it to do the heavy lifting on a lot of our data science efforts. And finally, the ability to spin up different compute resources for different tasks and avoid contention is a godsend.","The web SQL editor can be a tad flaky at times (no pun intended), though I am excited to see the upcoming version that they just showed off. In general I'd love to get more updates from them about the great work and additions that they are constantly making to the platform; I sometimes discover great new features by accident when I am googling to solve a problem."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Before Snowflake, you couldn't have it all. You either sacrificed performance or used flat files, sacrificing the benefits of an RDBMS. Snowflake has really figured out how to give you both in a way that's great.","t's almost too open. For an enterprise, the set up for security is very difficult and feels much like a bolted on afterthought."

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"regional failover AND cloud service failover as new features, i.e failover from AWS to Azure. Simple to use, secure, and connect.",still missing some standard RMDBS functionality.

G2.COM,Verified User ,,3.5,enjoyed a lot of the topics covered overall. It was a good way to increase exposure to the stack of tools we have access to.,"signup / capacity warnings. i didnt get into two sessions my first day that i wanted. the food was not particularly allergen friendly. also please create some breaks! some of the breakout sessions were fairly high level, would have enjoyed more technical/analitycal"

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,frictionless.. low maintanence... power packed..,utilities.. some of the features that worksheets has are subpar

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Frederic P.",Principal Consultant,5,"No need to manage, always up, no DB Administrator needed anymore. Snowflake SQL is really easy and fully featured. Cost is fairly easy to project and allocate. Obviously, it scales like a charm. And did I mention that storage is dirt cheap? They basically are just passing S3's cost...","On boarding experience takes longer than it should: I had to wait 3 days to get it activated...

Also, you can get a vanity address but it requires to talk to their sales teams and is a more convoluted process than it should really be..."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"I like the scalable nature of Snowflakes' warehouse billing. Combined with the flexible nature, the data sharing offers new product opportunities",It's really easy to write poor queries and ramp up warehouse cost.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"The speed and scalability, easy to use, and also being cloud-based","no stored procedures, there is no AWS region for Brazil customers as well."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Snowpipe and the autoscaling are the best features,Price can be a deterrent because it is harder to put under Cap Ex expenses.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"SQL Concurrency and separation of Storage and Compute, Time Travel, Zero Copy cloning, Materialized Views, Minimal DBA management","More transparency into Service part of architecture (Global Services layer), Release of new features might be better off with notifications to customers"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"More transparency into Service part of architecture (Global Services layer), Release of new features might be better off with notifications to customers",It would be good if you could add feature to manage partitions on top of the base functionality.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The ability to separate functional areas of the business to their own warehouse and allow them to work in their own environment without affecting the rest of the business,The integration from Databricks if using okta
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Megan B.",Account Manager,4.5,The announcements and new releases are proof of the innovation of its leaders and their drive to put customers first. The fact that Snowflake keeps getting better and better with no downtime is amazing. Can't wait to see more!,"Honestly, can't think of one, but for my specific role, I would say it's hard to know who to talk to in the company due to the growth (a good problem to have, I suppose). It constantly changes making partner relationships difficult with Snowflake Sales Directors."

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Hailey R.",Regional Account Manager,5,"Snowflake didn't just develop a cutting edge DW and stop there. Instead they ask ""how can I make this better for our customers and partners"" on a daily basis. These innovations show and contribute to the Blizzard that is Snowflake!","With the exceptional growth of the company, it's difficult to determine who is who, what rep is over each area, and who to reach out to to solve a problem. But this is a great problem to have - a massive growth spurt!"

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,The SQL standards followed by snowflake matches the ANSI standards and it's similar to majority of RDBMDS systems in terms of SQL syntax.,Connectivity with other computing platforms like Spark or it's Python3 connector which i found major issues.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"hands on labs and sessions, ask the expert","hands on labs and sessions, ask the expert"

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,I love Snowflake for its performance and the many different features that are constantly being added. I thought the tool/technology was very easy to pick up and the snowflake team is very helpful in guiding and assisting when necessary.,I am a pretty new user of Snowflake so right now I am still in a bit of a honeymoon phase maybe as I dont have anything I particularly dislike.

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Alex S.",,5,"Constant innovation to continue to be the best. They took a brilliant idea to separate compute and storage, and keep improving the scope that it can be used for, and making thins easier to maintain.","The current limitations are already being addressed, including integration with streaming data and better multi-cloud support, and replication."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Snowflake is exactly as described in all their literature. There is no smoke and mirrors here, its all in the platform and it just works!",Nothing I can think of right now. Wishing more organizations will wake up and try the platform. Data Sharing would be better if more orgs were on the platform.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,The fact that its so easy to set up an allows our customers to utilize their data in a fraction of the time.,Would like to have more tutorials and KT

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Sue D.",Senior Director Application Development,5,"I have been able to get some good technical advice on incorporating Snowflake. Since I started looking at Snowflake less than 2 months ago and launched our first app on it yesterday, need all the help I can get. What I love about Snowflake is its speed and flexible sizing for concurrency.",Too new for me to complain. I will need to get more experience.

G2.COM,Verified User,,3,Separate compute and storage layer. History view. Auto scale up and auto resume for warehouse has been amazing. Time travel feature is the best of all. Love it.,Hope that snowflake provide the monitor credit usage view.

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Verified User",,4.5,"Data Sharing is very unique to Snowflake. Other differentiation is the storage and compute separation,

Numerics",i dont see any major feature that i wont like

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Verified User",,4,"The workflow has been very seamless. Does a lot of heavy lifting for us. The various ways to connect including the UI , snowsql is phenomenal.",The documentation and tutorials could be expanded more covering a lot of things that are hidden or not as visible.

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Verified User",,4.5,the vibe was great everyone is excited also the sessions are informational,sessions should be registration based as we are not able to get in

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Kenneth D.",Technology Manager,5,We were on Redshift and we could not scale. We had an engineer dedicated to keeping the lights on. It was not sustainable. Moving to Snowflake allowed us to lift and shift our data warehouse and expand to the data storage and compute that we needed to run the business with a push of a button. That headcount was moved to building features to deliver the company value.,"Snowflake is a great data lake, however I think there could be growth there in order to support schemas as well as better querying."

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Vishal S.",Solutions & Deployment Architect,5,The Snowflake Product is way ahead of its time. It is one of a kind Datwarehouse which provides enhanced performance with appropriate billing and increases productivity,Would like to see more Monitoring and Analysis options made available

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Verified User",,5,"Snowflake is really good at isolating compute and Storage, which let us use this technology in innovative ways not possible before. We are in process of making Snowflake core technology as center of new data strategy platform.",Documentation can be a lot better as new product rollouts.

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Verified User",,4,I like the events and the multiple talks given. Its still early in the conference so I cannot give a full review until after the conference. The mobile app also helps a lot!,I wish there was more labs as well as little more organized on how the rooms are laid out and how to get from place to place.

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Verified User",,5,Unlimited Concurrency is a feature of Snowflake that can not be imitated by any other DWH.,There is no nasty part as many function will be developed or complemented by the partner ecosystem.

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Verified User",,5,I like how Snowflake continuously improves it's product and no additional costs. We get new and exciting features that make our data-warehousing easier that we can start using immediately without any upgrades.,"I'm sure if I thought about it long enough, I'd find something I dislike. I can't right now though."
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Verified User",,4,learning how other companies are using snowflake for faster data decision making analytics,not being able to be in multiple lessons at once
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Verified User",,4.5,Snowflake provides the flexibility to scale and optimise performance through via seperating compute and storage,As we are early on the journey thereis not a lot to dislike but currently has the ability to meet our strategic needs
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Verified User",,4.5,"Great core product, robust, easy to use UI, multiple solutions for data pipelining; sql sharing; etc.",migration components complexity for developers; query benchmarking variations
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Verified User",,5,Very easy to use yet very powerful. A true cloud solution for managing data.,"As a new user, more readily available tutorials wold be helpful."
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Verified User",,4,new features unfold in the summit. the data exchange and the new user interface were very amazing,"lab organisation - i was registered on the app, it didnt show up, had to talk around, later realizing someone else saw my name in the list. The help offered when i had an issue was not timely"
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Verified User",,4,"The variety of stalls, sessions and keynotes",The costs can be a bit restricting for small companies
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Verified User",,4.5,"Uptime, data sharing, query performance. As a db user, i never have to worry about when i run my query or if it will run.",The worksheet sql editor. It is buggy and a little slow being in the browser.
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Verified User",,4,The best attribute off Snowflake to date is speed!,"What is being fixed, primarily hosted on AWS"
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Nate W.",Solution Architect,4.5,The most scaleable performant and cost effective Database out there.,The most scaleable performant and cost effective Database out there.
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Lee H.",Senior Manager,5,"Speed, scalability, ease, standard sql, minimal Adminstration, price, flexibility",No on premise version. I know...it doesn’t make sense as it was built for cloud....but it would be nice to have a local version
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Aaron D.",Sr. Director Data & Intelligence,5,"Speed of query layer (minutes/hours to seconds)

ON demand utilization of compute and storage in AWS

Cross-cloud support

Data sharing capabilities",none
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Matt S.","Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Management",4.5,"Separation of storage from compute, and robust permissioning architecture","Lack of query complete in worksheets, lack of native connectivity to Alteryx"
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Erich H.","VP, Business Development",5,"Snowflake shares make it easy for business units to consume, share and leverage out data as well as that of our business partners - securely.","Hard to think of something, features are being added all the time. They are extremely customer centric."
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Sreeni A.",DBA,5,Learned a lot about Snowflake Technology and it is really wonderful.,Time travel should be more efficient with time series
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Jesse B.","Could Data Consultant
",4,How easy the UI makes it to write sql statements to the database,How hard it is to differentiate between warehouses and databases
G2.COM,"
Bryan C.",Director of Data & Analytics,5,The ability to scale compute and pay for only what you use helps control costs and have high performing queries for your company.,There really isn't a downside to Snowflake as you can leverage multiple storage technologies and they are continuing to making the product better

G2.COM,Verified User ,,5,The ability to do datawarehousing easily on the cloud from the web browser.,I don't find anything that I didn't like so far. But the documentations can be improved.

G2.COM,Verified User ,,5,"The title of the review says it all. Have been doing Data Management stuff for 26 years now, and Databases are at the heart of it. Nothing is like Snowflake!!!",Nothing so far. Still in implementation phase and POC has completed. The experience so far has been great.

G2.COM,Verified User ,,4.5,"We've been using snowflake for about 2 years not. Great product, very fast, and very cheap. Very useful with JSON processing.","THE user interface. Looks like once numeracy comes in, that;ll improve it tremendously."
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4,"simple, powerful and easy to integrate with others",nothing really. The price could be lower I guess
G2.COM,Verified User ,,3.5,"Snowflake has great performance, feature rich and has a good road map for where it wants to go.","It would be nice if there were some on prem offerings in addition to cloud. Additionally, a focus on real time data is a must."
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4,I appreciate the visual interface combined with the ability to use SQL. Easy way to create a data warehouse.,It would be good to build out the visual interface a bit more.
G2.COM,Verified User ,,3.5,I enjoyed hearing about the future enhancements as well as how Snowflake can integrate with so many different platforms,The training was a bit of a mess. Too many problems with permissions on the training accounts and it was incredibly slow - I would consider having multiple training sessions for various levels of data warehouse knowledge
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4.5,"Flexibility, elasticity, control, security, no maintenance, no downtime!!!",Pricing! We have to pay for every second we use. I would say one of the things I dislike the most is that we even have to pay for querying the Snowflake usage database. We shouldn't be billed for that.
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4,Snowflake is all about speed and flexibility. It's easy to expand when necessary.,Not all of the database features exist yet. Simple things like constraints and stored procedures would be helpful.
G2.COM,"
Zackary N.",Analytics Engineer,5,"We've only been using Snowflake for a couple of months, but have been extremely pleased with the performance and usability of the system. We migrated from Redshift and immediately began to see benefits to both performance and cost - the same queries were running in less time on less resources.","As of right now, the main problem with Snowflake has been the ramp to get started. There's not that many resources available for how to properly move over from Redshift/Tableau to using Snowflake and Tableau together. There were some hiccups related to the way in which Tableau reads the column names which come out of Snowflake versus how the column names are read out of Redshift."
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4,Performance hands down! It does things 10x faster than oracle dw,no constraints so its hard to prevent duplicates. This makes it hard
G2.COM,Verified User ,,5,Cutting edge DW with ability to handle unstructured data. Splitting compute vs. storage is genius.,"Sometimes being on the cutting edge has some drawbacks in terms of bugs, but that's part of the fun."

G2.COM,"
Stephen P.",,5,"It just works, seriously. We love the support, have had almost issues with it. The SQL dialect is pretty standard, few small quirks, but it's worth taking the time to convert your existing queries to it.",That it didn't come out sooner. The one thing is that UI is a little buggy sometimes but honestly we use various SQL IDE's like Datagrip so it's not an issue for us.
G2.COM,"
David K.",VP Technology - Business Intellignence and Data,5,Ease of use of the platform and the lack of need for maintenance,There is really nothing that I dislike
G2.COM,"
christopher m.",Senior Solution Architect,5,"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!","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!"
G2.COM,Verified User ,,3.5,"Simple UI, easiness of usage, detailed billing","UI latency in the query history table, slow switching between roles"
G2.COM,"
Zackary N.",Analytics Engineer,5,"We've only been using Snowflake for a couple of months, but have been extremely pleased with the performance and usability of the system. We migrated from Redshift and immediately began to see benefits to both performance and cost - the same queries were running in less time on less resources.","As of right now, the main problem with Snowflake has been the ramp to get started. There's not that many resources available for how to properly move over from Redshift/Tableau to using Snowflake and Tableau together. There were some hiccups related to the way in which Tableau reads the column names which come out of Snowflake versus how the column names are read out of Redshift."
G2.COM,"
Verified User",,4,Performance hands down! It does things 10x faster than oracle dw,no constraints so its hard to prevent duplicates. This makes it hard
G2.COM,"
Verified User",,5,Cutting edge DW with ability to handle unstructured data. Splitting compute vs. storage is genius.,"Sometimes being on the cutting edge has some drawbacks in terms of bugs, but that's part of the fun."

G2.COM,"
Stephen P.",,5,"It just works, seriously. We love the support, have had almost issues with it. The SQL dialect is pretty standard, few small quirks, but it's worth taking the time to convert your existing queries to it.",That it didn't come out sooner. The one thing is that UI is a little buggy sometimes but honestly we use various SQL IDE's like Datagrip so it's not an issue for us.
G2.COM,"
David K.",VP Technology - Business Intellignence and Data,5,Ease of use of the platform and the lack of need for maintenance,There is really nothing that I dislike
G2.COM,"
christopher m.",Senior Solution Architect,5,"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!","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!"
G2.COM,Verified User,,3.5,"Simple UI, easiness of usage, detailed billing","UI latency in the query history table, slow switching between roles"
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4,Performance is a beast. Coming from an enterprise DWH's experience; Snowflake performance is day & night for us.,administrative features are not readily available. On site support was iffy at times.
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michael l.",Analyst,4.5,The performance gain experienced by our team was phenomenal for our deliverables. Very much looking forward to the plethora of tools we can use on side with Snowflake,"not much! But if theres one thing, it would be being able to run loops in your query!"
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Super fast query without much efforts to optimizing the database,Injecting and pulling data could be easier
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,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,Need a stronger set of capabilities to enable migration of large data sets.
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Jacob M.",Data Modeler,5,"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.","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."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,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.,I have yet to find a hard dislike. The IDE in browser could provide better autocomplete features.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"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.","Not applicable, it's been a great platform that enables the organiation."

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,The ability to stand up an environment without a huge upfront investment.,The ability to not seamlessly support SQL stored procedures. Python wrappers and/or C#/Java Script code seems inefficient

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"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.",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

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Todd R.","Technical Architect
",4.5,"Ease to market, ease of used - Love the integration tool including zeio copy clone - and Data sharing for external vendors",GUI interface needs improve ent - Sales overload

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Rakesh Kumar V.",Data Engineer,4,"compute and storage are separate, connectors are available for different tools like spark, Rstudio, python and storge format",dont have option to convert xml and json files to tables.

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Sameer M.",Principal Engineer,3.5,Starting support is great and helpful....but the next steps need a little bit of learning on my part as well as support from snowflake.,"Nothing in particular, just during learning of snowflake if the sales guys disappear documentation is not updated. If you get stuck, the documentation only gets cleared with snowmen."

G2.COM,"
Mika H.",Data Architect,5,"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.","Lack of AD integration, as I still need to create users manually."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Each snowflake is unique, and every employee i have come in contact with so far are all extremely knowledge and professional. highly recommend!!",so far i have not found anything that i dislike in regards to snowflake

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"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",Nothing. Like I said best platform out there

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Performance and ease of use.,So far nothing but still in the early stages

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Almost all the tech leaders are under same roof.,Less time for networking

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"great performance with minimal setup, easy to integrate with othe rplatforms","convincing DBAs to switch platforms, not much else to dislike"

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Scalable and massively parallel Architecture,The pricing model is complex and difficult to predict without buidling your expertise on the software.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Snowflake's next generation features with familiar SQL features makes it the smarted choice in data Warehousing.,Not possible! Snowflake is revolutionary in data warehousing.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Virtual data warehouses separate out compute workloads and provide isolation,Lack of intellisense Integration with PowerBI is not as tight as it needs to be.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,This software is so easy to use and integrate into my existing infrastructure.,At this current time i have no dislikes of the solution
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Mack D.",Business Analyst,4.5,"Snowflake is fast, I really enjoy being able to execute complex queries in seconds as opposed to waiting for an extended period of time.",Sometimes the web UI is a little bit quirky. There's no find and replace in the query workspaces. Nothing major sticks out though.

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Gavin W.",Business Analyst,4.5,I love the freedom that the web UI gives me. I need to work remotely at least once a week and the web UI is much more reliable than any other that I have used. Snowflake is also more stable than previous software I've used.,The editor in the web UI is a little feature poor. Things like find and replace and auto-prediction are missing.
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Verified User",,5,"Snowflake is convenient, with a web UI that saves your worksheets in the cloud. It is incredibly powerful, letting you do queries that execute faster than Oracle SQL by orders of magnitude.","The web UI is a little underdeveloped. It has some powerful features like cloud syncing and best-of-class support for multiple cursors, but it also has some glaring omissions such as Find & Replace."
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Mark L.",Data Analyst,5,I like that Snowflake has decoupled our compute and storage requirements and can scale up or down as our needs change. They also have some of the best documentation in the industry.,I'm not sure that there's anything I can think of as a negative.
G2.COM,"
Verified User",,5,"Time saver, ease of use, sharing data with a click of button and cost platform is built for every business structure. Tool with a lot of power and yet built in simplicity!@","Usually the basics of common training materials. It's easy to use once setup, but getting through the setup is sometimes a little more than the regular business customers would like to deal with. Still rate a 10/10 for most liked!"
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Verified User",,5,The part of Snowflake I like best is the performance and seamlessness of querying against the cloud.,There is a lot to be learned for best practices for choosing data warehouse size
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Brandon N.",Data Engineer,4.5,The ability to easily scale querys to meet demand.,Ability to effectively determine cost of queries..
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Verified User",,4,True cloud warehouse which makes the compute and storage go without limit.,Relatively new. It's hard to get all the metadata information

G2.COM,"
Alex S.",Data Architect,5,Having the ability to spin up/down compute on demand is very useful. Traditional ETL patterns no longer need to be followed to get good results. Native JSON support makes dealing with APIs simple and easy.,Cumbersome security model is a pain to use but in reality much better for the data warehouse.

G2.COM,"
rusdi s.","Sr Data Architect
",5,Snowflake can be up and running in no time. No learning curve if you are regular rdbms user or developer. no dba experience required. You can optimized the cost by monitoring the usage,The company still young so there is a lot changes happen

G2.COM,"
Verified User",,5,"Great computational power, back ups, ability to change size on demand.","The online interface is pretty good, but could use some improvement. I have experienced issues with complex queries that involve multiple joins and have a lot of partitions"

G2.COM,Akshay S.,Software Development Engineer,3.5,"1. Elastic storage,

2. Vertical scaling of compute power.

3. Support of user defined functions.

4. Wide range of analytics functions.

5. Fail safe.

Time travel.

Undrop","Frequent production issues.

Lack of proper support

No backup of data provided."

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,The computing speed for the queries has been greatly increased. You an make it even more scalable by increasing the size of VM instance. Ideal for warehouse which follows star schema .,Doesn't support stored procedures/ functions. Date operations are pretty complicated and lengthy. The import from CSV doesn't work as well. It requires long process where you have to stage a file to AWS Storage and then only you are allowed to import.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"There are few things I liked Snowflake -

-Ease of management

-Complete elastic architecture

-Complete separation of compute and storage

-Compute clusters can be managed by end users

-Simple pricing model

-Dynamic scaling on the fly",I mostly liked Snowflake compared to other cloud databases and some aspects needs improvements incl. Geospatial functions and additional libraries.

G2.COM,"
Mike N.",,4.5,"We needed to migrate from RedShift quickly, and moving to Snowflake was easy. The think I like most is Snowflake's separation of compute and storage, which gives me a huge amount of flexibility when assigning different workloads. I also appreciate the query caching that Snowflake does to decrease my cost and increase the performance.","The only thing I don't really like about Snowflake is that there is one Identity Provider per account. This means I have to have more accounts than I would normally create, and the accounts cannot share a pool of compute, thus eliminating some of my economy of scale."

G2.COM,"
Verified User",,5,"Snowflake seamlessly blends into our BI stack, is invisible when we need it be, and is available and transparent when required.","The language is a little specific, and just different enough from regular SQL/similar."

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Piyush C.",Director - Analytics,4.5,Query time is consistent and provides good analyst experience,UI needs to improve a bit with better ability to visualize data schema

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Rajan P.",Founder,5,"Snowflake lets me load a lot of formats of data and play around with them. It reads anywhere from .gz to .csv and let's me copy specific coloumns' data out.

I actually use it as a replacement for Ms Excel on my Mac. I had taken a python course and instead of using Pandas, I used Snowflake to good effect.",Snowflake could bring in the support of a procedural SQL like PL/SQL. That would really make it unmatched.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"it is good dwh and working well in our env
",nothing its all good in dwh in our organization

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,JSON parsing feature of Snowflake is the best compare to Redshift. I am currently using snowflake as our main data warehouse where multiple application has JSON data and snowflake does it really well.,Support response is slow in case of emergency need. I had need last year and response was very slow.

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Sonny R.",Direct of Data & Analytics,5,"The performance has been great. We have seen 3 to 8 times improvement on query performance.

There has been very low maintenance work such as tuning hardware or system configuration or query plan optimization.

The auto resume and auto shutdown is great for cost savings.

Also, we are using processing semi-structure data like JSON as well.",More improvements in on the Stored Proc front.

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Kenneth Y.","VP of Data
Internet",5,"-independent, on-demand scaling of compute and storage

- no maintenance / ops (don't have to worry about vacuum, adding nodes, sort / dist keys, weekly maintenance, etc)","Because it's a new comer, the ecosystem is not as well established as Redshift (which has been around for over 6 years)"

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Scalability - you can add as many compute nodes as you need to in order to meet your demand. You can also shut them down as needed to save on the cost.,"Cost and perceived savings of auto shut off. While the concept is awesome, being able to auto shut off is the only way to make Snowflake come even close in terms of cost to Azure data warehouse and AWS redshift."

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Alexandre T.",Software Engineer,5,"The Snowflake capacity to deal with a really large amount of data, usually faster but if not you can always bump the warehouse size and get results faster, and this all is done within a few clicks and smooth. Very well documented as well and quick support answers when needed.",Lack of UI features for operations and debug. Not able to give hints to the compiler. Some updates that cause unexpected issues sometimes.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Performance and costs are configurable easily to your needs. Snowflake is also easily integrated with leading BI and ETL/ELT tools. Built-in tuning and optimization is very useful,"Admin panel could be a bit more comprehensive (user/role/group management), usage metrics"

G2.COM,Verified User,,1,"Relatively quick for being in-browser, snappy design","Bad UI, unintuitive, can't process info quickly, wish I could do more with the data for analyst use-cases"
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Ankit A.",BI Analyst,4.5,"Snowflake is way faster than other DBs I have worked on for daily uses.

If table is clustered (optimized) then joins on huge table can be also be very fast.

Best of all, snowflake gives you capability to assign different warehouses for ETL , adhoc usage etc. Hence adhoc users dont have to kill their queries for ETL to run and finish.

You can see the query plan in the snowflake UI itself.

With their latest feature - AUTO CLUSTERING, now users dont have to worry about cluster and recluster as well.

Snowflake has a UI as well. Less savvy users can use snowflake's UI instead of buying any other product from the market. UI has some pretty standard features but its not the best UI I have worked with.","Snowflake UI goes does very frequently, partition pruning might not work if cluster keyed filters are part of CASE WHEN.

So in nutshell, snowflake support is good but could be better in updating ETAs on their tickets."

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Daniel N.",Data Engineer,4,"Separate compute and storage for easy workload management. Don't have to think about distribution strategies or indexes. It's fast. For such a young database, I'm impressed by the feature support.",Hands down not being able to load json into a regular table. I HATE how you need to insert json into a one column type variant table then flatten out. This should be natively supported imo.
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Ricardo L.",,4.5,Snowflake provides lots of features as auto-starting and auto-pausing virtual warehouses that turn the administration of the data warehouse much easier and cost efficient. The pricing model separating compute and storage is very useful in some cases and enables great cost allocation between departments with the concept of multiple virtual warehouses. Queries in Snowflake also run fast compared to other products like AWS Redshift.,"Even having JDBC and ODBC drivers, the ecosystem with native integration is still small compared to other more established products."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Its pretty fast. Mush faster than contemporaries,UI is not responsive and goes down quite a bit
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"* Ability to easily and quickly scale storage and compute independently. Lots of scaling options.

* Flexible data structure support (cluster keys, materialized views)

* Snowpipe feature makes it incredibly easy to ingest data from S3 automatically

* Excellent JSON support; can handle nested structures

* Integrates well with our Business Intelligence tooling. Lots of native integration support.

* Excellent community. Lots of events and resources for learning how to effectively use the product.

* Flexible role-based permissions model

* Slack support is responsive","Not much to write about here -- this is a great service! :)

There are still a few technologies we've looked at that are in the early days of building a native integration with Snowflake.

In the past, I've needed to refresh schema role grants when adding new tables; it'd be convenient to express that I want those automatically included in the grant."

G2.COM,Verified User,,3,it is Fast and Robust and handles large amount of Data at ease,"its compatibility with other interfaces, it cannot be used with .Net Framework"

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Robert B.",VP of Engineering,5,The feature that stands out most to us is the fact that we can send raw JSON into snowflake and each property is automatically indexed. This gives us the ability to operationalize our use of semi-structured data with minimal engineering overhead.,Currently the only headache we're having is that it does not work to seamlessly integrate Azure Append Blobs into Snowflake. It still feels a bit like Microsoft Azure is a bit of a second class citizen.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"Scalable, great user interface, familiar SQL language",Nothing that I can think of that I dislike
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Kumar B.",Financial Methodology Product Designer,5,"Snowflake is easy to set up and use. It provides a lot of flexibility in terms of performance and cost efficiency by its ability to scale clusters up and down in an instant. Snowflake's best feature though, in my opinion, has to be ""time travel"". Time travel is a concept of deriving data from any given point in time. Snowflake also has a ""share"" functionality, which allows us to share data across the company with ease. Snowflake's capability to clone has also helped us in our testing efforts.",There's not much to be said here. Snowflake was one of the most flexible and scalable warehouse options we found in the market when researching for a cloud-based data warehouse.

G2.COM,"
Verified User",,5,I love that t he CX team is so prompt and efficient,Its a little complicated to use. I would love a video tutorial

G2.COM,"
Verified User",,4,The parallel processing of queries and throughput of the query,Not support dynamic query executions in snowflake

G2.COM,"
Verified User",,4.5,"Ability to add additional compute power (warehouses) to run SQL's. Also, each warehouse shows costs associated with running tasks.",show commands. Lack of filtering and ordering results in a non-standard order.
G2.COM,"
Verified User",,4.5,computation and storage are decoupled so we can keeping on adding storage without adding unnecessary computing power,AD group are not fully supported. We have to manually manage user groups locally
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Matt W.",Application Architect,4.5,"Our model is to share access to various portions of an analytics warehouse in a multi-tenant, multi-cloud environment. Snowflake has been tremendously easy to implement and configure to support our model. Customer provisioning is straightforward and cost per customer metrics are easy to collect. Managing the per-tenant shares is a piece of cake.","One current snag in the customer onboarding model for us is that there is a manual finalization step on Snowflake's side for setting up a new customer reader link to our primary account. This is a one-time step per customer that can be performed ahead of time, so it's not a crisis, but having this be fully automated would be a huge win for us."
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Martin H.",Senior Data Analyst,5,"Snowflake perfectly suits our needs - it turns on and scales up automatically, and is invisible, and free, when not in use. Couldn't ask for more.",Nothing

G2.COM,Verified User,,3.5,Really great customer services. they answered my queries in a quick and professional manner. And its great that you only pay for what you query.,All the problems that we have had with snowflake have always been addressed appropriately.

G2.COM,Verified User,,3,"I like the fact that the interface is simply SQL, you don't need to learn something else. The web interface is nice and gives a lot of details about what's going on. Also support is usually responsive.",Intuitions based on using SQL with a relational database no longer apply. Also execution times vary by a lot.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The query time is significantly better than qubole,There are no stored procedures and no scheduler

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Having data and compute decoupled has been amazing. We save lots of money by suspending the warehouse when it's not in use.,I only just learned about the cluster key feature. I'd like more proactivity towards what tuning I can do.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Snowflake has the best balance between price and computing power. Redshift tiers are expensive on either storage or computing, snowflake provides best of both worlds",The ecosystem is somewhat immature - you have to figure out the best ETL/data infrastructure around Snowflake

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Eric F.",Senior Product Manager - Data Solutions,5,"It is wicked fast! Queries run faster than out 128 GM memory Oracle DB even when just running the small compute size. Also, everything is simple and they regularly improve the product.",The worksheet functionality could be improved. Would be nice to save worksheets externally. Had issues with them not saving properly and all SQL scripts I had saved were lost.

G2.COM,"
Verified User",,3.5,"the product flexibility to scale, no maintenance and support both structured and semi-structured data",the support of this product is not that weel

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Yury B.",Senior Developer,5,That's the fastest and the most agile DB I ever worked with. I also deeply appreciate scale-ability as you can always throw in more computational power if you need so without any hassle,"Some queries are not optimized as you'd expect them to be, that leads to you writing some workarounds which work ""kind of"" the way you wanted them to be. Sometimes support team resolves problems, but sometimes they reply something like ""it's the way it works, deal with it"". I also wish the query details\profile screen was easier accessible from worksheets: the UI is sort of slow in switching from worksheet to query details and if you do that as one off - it's not a biggie, but as you do it more often - that becomes a hassle as UI getting laggy and works slow."
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4,"sql console allows to keep previous commands, also the easy to see the schemma","lack of suggestions as you type it should show or sugest what commands to use.

warning that query will take long time."
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Douglas D.",Head of Data Science,4,"Very clear UI.

Easy to resize resources to get the job done

Python connector works great","Pretty inefficient with very wide tables and with INSERT statements

Not 100% stable; things hang or shut down periodically"
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Russell L.",Software Engineer,5,I like the speed at which you can accomplish a task that is assigned to you by using the variety of tools provided by Snowflake.,I only dislike the fact that tables with constraints are not enforced particularly with a primary key.
G2.COM,Verified User ,,4.5,"easy usage, SQL oriented, excellent sales team","nothing, at this point nothing is of concern for our team"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"I like that Snowflake uses a mix of novel solutions and tried and true foundations to deliver a product that they say they deliver. The main thing is the ease of use, and the speed of use.",I guess my only critique would be that I didn't fully understand how it worked when we first started using it and therefore was not able to use it to it's full power. Maybe I wasn't privy to those convos?

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Usability of Snowflake is great. Best in class,Not much .. may be its flexibility is an issue

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,Provides very fast update and query performance for a reasonable cost. Cloud-based deployment keeps database management to an absolute minimum.,Still not as mature as some other RDBMS products but is rapidly developing functionality.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"1) Speed (single execution) - everything is ridiculously fast. I'm no longer restrained by what I can do because of speed constraints found on other systems.

2) Storage - super cheap storage is huge for me as a developer. My job is so much easier when I can log and save more data.","1) latency between executions. We execute a lot of statements at once, but the throughput of those statements is slow. It would help if we could submit multiple statements in a batch.

2) Need real stored procedures... the current development preview of procedures is disappointing. I would not call them ""procedures"". I would call them ""internal APIs"". Looping in the current procedure just submits SQL statements that have the same latency problems as item 1. Makes them pretty much unusable for row by row processing of many rows in a loop (which is the only REAL reason you should ever have to use looping in a SQL language). We have two situations for looping at speed row by row for thousands of rows... row by row processing of data where some rows could have an error, while others do not. The other is just super complicated calculations that just are more maintainable in a loop (lead and lag functions might make it possible, but more difficult to maintain).

3) support has gone down hill since the early days... we are now getting responses from front line support with responses that are not helpful at all. We always have to get to 2nd tier support before we are helped at all. Front line support just responds with stuff that we already know that doesn't help us at all."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,fastness of queries. Easy to understand interface.,when you update a table from a view without a piece of code in it you have to regrant access

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,It's faster and easier to go to production with snowflake than any other data warehouse. Performance and scalability are superior without needing to spend time on design.,Support for stored procedures is a good to have for ETL.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Beats Redshift in performance and cost. The in-time snapshot to roll back data to a previous state is also pretty incredible. The data storage costs is very low in comparison to Redshift and the computational speed far exceeds what Redshift can handle. DUO push as a two step authentication is a bonus.,"Extra fees for security and vpc. Not really a big fan of paying roughly 30-50% more for AWS VPC routing.

Also there might be a need for more support hours since databases can be used 24/7 downtime can occur anytime. During a regional, but not national Holiday, most of the company was out and there wasn't any method to contact support team besides leaving a phone number and waiting it out."
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Tanner N.",Sr. DevOps Engineer - Systems and Security,3.5,It's fast and allows us to pay more efficiently for our needs.,Nothing! It works great and meets all our needs

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Ping C.",Goldengate Architect/designer,5,"integrated to AWS and low maintenance from client side.

performance","when I search on google, not much information I can get from snowflake questions"

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Verified User",,3.5,"programmatic interface, and generic sql ability",lack of indexing as in traditional RDBMS systems

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Verified User",,4.5,"Ease of use, speed and customer service - overall excellent",There is nothing I can think of that I dislike about the platform.

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Verified User",,4.5,"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.","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."
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Verified User",,4,Snowflake provides the flexibility to use the data warehouse by multiple analysts at the same time.,"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."
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Verified User",,4,"Ease of use, nice docs, full ansi SQL support",docs are not as usable as they used to be.
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Verified User",,4.5,"JSON support is amazing. While other engines support JSON format for data types, snowflake does it with performance. It is a breeze to query data stored as JSON because of underlying columnar storage that JSON gets converted to. We also like how easy it is to add additional compute nodes when needed. This was a pain point with some other vendors. With a push of a button (or a simple script) you can add additional compute power. When the demand subsides, you can turnd those off.","Cost. It's on the pricier end of things. Between Azure Data Warehouse and AWS Redshift, Snowflake was significantly more expensive even with auto shut off feature enabled. But it seems that some of those costs can be written off due to simplicity of set up and maintenance that would typically go to DBA resource."

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Sonny R.",Director of Data and Analytics,5,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).,Have a more robust stored procedure features will be great.
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daniel c.",sr mgr dw/bi,5,"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.",I would love to see smart text when drafting SQL.
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Stuart H.",Head of Data & Analytics,5,"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","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."
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Carlos F.",Director of Business Intelligence,4.5,"Big data capabilities with the familiarity of SQL. No need to learn a new language.

Auto-scaling of computing resources and data sharing functionality.","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."
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Scott S.",Director,5,"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!","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."
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Avinash H.",Head of Analytics,4.5,"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.",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.
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Verified User",,4.5,storage and computing powers are independent. easy integration with s3 and other tools such as looker.,some small caveat differences between snowflakeSQL and regular SQL/mysql have cause some rewriting in legacy codes
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Verified User",,5,The database is incredibly fast even when using many joins and even with text joins. The functions ROLLUP and CUBE are critical to the way we use Snowflake and those have been unavailable in other systems. Our sales rep Sarah at Snowflake has been wonderful to work with.,"Support has been working a bug where queries return incorrect results for a while now. This does affect our customers, but the incorrect results cause rows to be shown many times so it's more annoying than it is misinformative. Snowflakes ABSOLUTE REFUSAL to shutdown while overloading it is awesome, but it has caused service interruption on our side due to a bad query hogging all of the resources. Instead of quitting and restarting all processes, Snowflake dutifully worked on churning the data. Good? Bad? I don't know. The query was never going to happen, so we ended up manually having to kill it so all other backed up queries could run. That being said, we are still working on developing our skills with using all of the database tools."
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Verified User",,4.5,"The separation of compute and storage is pure genius. Such a simple concept, but has such a tremendous impact in terms of how you manage your database performance /workloads etc. Almost nothing to tune performance - no indexes / partitions to deal with. Time travel functionality is something the business likes as well. Support for semi-structured data has allowed us to transform complex business data into easy analysis points for the business.","Support is a bit spotty and difficult to get hold of. The new lodge is a great start, but will take some time to build up fully. The error messages in Snowflake are a bit cryptic at times, making it harder to troubleshoot complex issues at hand."
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Verified User",,5,The technology works exactly as described and has been a game changer for us. All of the people that we work with are very customer focused and want to make things work exceptionally well,"There have been a few outages and we've also encountered some bugs. All of this is par for the course, but of course, we would like to try to minimize and avoid this whereever possible."
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Verified User",,5,"The easy to increase performance power, the separation of database and warehouse.","The setup process of snowpipe because it is not easy and confusion. I like copy command setting up process, it is straightforward and easy to maintain"
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Verified User",,5,"No maintenance required, good query performance, good SQL support and features, super easy to scale, reliable so far. Data cloning and sharing is unique and awesome and fits our use case perfectly.","Some bugs in the Python connector, some query errors for complex queries, can get pricy if high concurrency is required. Permission management differs from MySQL. We only had a single service outage so far."
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Paolo F.",Big Data Platform Architect,5,"The performance, its support for semi-structured data and the Acid back-bone. It is like having Hadoop with Transactions and fine role-base security. Data Sharing is also new to the database world. We can now share any data with our Clients without additional burden.",It would be nice to be able to self-manage the fail-safe. For instance tables from the fail-safe should be removed explicitely so no storage is vasted.
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Tim H.",Director of Data,4,Speed of query and ease of use of the web UI. Dialect similar to Redshift so easy to adopt.,Tough to organise and share queries between users - some SQL commands are non-intuitive
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Donovan M.","Director of Engineering, Data Services",5,The snapshot capabilities. The ability to take snapshots quickly so that we can work with a copy of the data,The security model can be a bit tedious.
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Verified User",,4,"The ease of scaling, access to support, how the service is always getting better","Unexpected downtime, was tough to get status updates on these downtimes - that has been getting better generally"
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Verified User",,5,first: the fast compute and unlimited storage . second: the connection to AWS S3. third the snow piple.,"Query GUI, it will be nice to have all the features like the generic query analyzer , example: DB VISUAL"
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Matt K.",SR Business Intelligence Engineer,5,Probably my favorite thing is how we can spin up the size of Snowflake for our ETL loads and derived tables builds throughout the day.,"I think what we struggle the most with is applying security roles to all schemas, databases and tables. Snowflake does have robust security but it does take some time to set up."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Very fast onboarding - very proactive Sales/Technical account assistance,Somewhat lack of technical tools to load data in Snowflake. Community is still somewhat young
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Aaron S.",Data Engineer,5,"It is super easy for my work as a Data Engineer to connect to Snowflake via Spark and streamline our ETL pipeline. It is ANSI SQL-compliant, so it is not much new to learn for anyone who has a SQL background.","I wish it supported Dynamic SQL. And, while it is convenient that UDFs can be written in JavaScript, I would love to see the addition of more languages."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Ease of use, scalability and excellent support","Nothing I really dislike about it, great platform"
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Eric A.",President & Chief Architect,5,"Snowflake completely changes the data warehousing paradigm. All of the implicit weaknesses that are baked into the core architecture of every major DW vendor in the last 30 years are gone. Endless CPU, endless storage, endless RAM. You will never get a spool space or tempdb error. You can store XML, JSON, and flat files natively and join them into your relational table queries. Snowflake automatically scales horizontally as necessary to complete the workload as quickly as possible.

It has oustanding NoSQL support, but it's also the fastest and most flexible relational database you can get at any price from any vendor. Including the ones that cost 7-8 figures per year.","Partner support (ETL tools, BI tools) isn't as broad as more established databases. However, this is changing quickly. Most of the modern players already have connectors."
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Benjamin Chase W.",Business Analyst,5,Ease of use and simple platform really make data analysis a breeze,"Limited usage with only sql, and no ability to use python in line with sql in the snowflake environment"
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Ability to dynamically provision cpu for the largest workloads and draw back down when unneeded for cost efficiency.,Costs are sometimes a bit unpredictable...need to keep a watch on it.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Web browser is great to use and easy to pull up,downloading data from web ui could be easier
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Whitney W.",Cloud Database Administrator,4.5,Snowflake is managed in a way that your queries perform optimally without much effort on your part. The database user management and roles is familiar (think PostgreSQL style) and can be done through a user interface or via SQL--both business users and experienced DBA's will be comfortable.,"I can't honestly think of much. The AWS region limitations are slightly problematic for East coast users, but overall this hasn't affected us hardly at all."
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Mark P.",VP of Architecture,5,Snowflake is super easy to get up and running. The auto-suspend functionality is saving us thousands of dollars per month over our previous data warehouse solution.,It would be nice if Snowflake offered service in the us-east-2 (ohio)region where the rest of our app is located.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,It's remarkably fast to traverse billions of rows of data sitting in storage with multiple users through their provisioned warehouses.,"There's no GeoJSON support yet, which makes working with location data harder than it needs to be."
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Wicks J.",Senior Data Engineer,4,"I like the fact that we have got many disparate data sources into 1 place. The queries issued against the data are quite fast and the data is stored optimally, taking up less space than they use in the source systems.","Scheduling is needed within snowflake itself. A full fledged client would be preferred to the web interface. More features within the SQL code itself is needed, like correlated sub queries in the select, instead of only in the where clause."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The speed of queries processing. We were able to speed up some queries from 15 minutes to 15 seconds. We didn't believe how fast it was when we started. It literally saved the business.,Outages. Also pretty rigid schema with 50 threads per warehouse. So long running queries and maintenance queries are capable of putting it in waiting mode quite a bit.
G2.COM,Verified User,,3.5,There is no need of maintenance on indexes. snowflake will take care automatically.cloud computing is one great feature.,"UI with internet explorer.one more point want to cover is if any feature is going to release means it should support all possible scenarios.if we take stored procedures, it won't support transactions. introduction of Stored procedures is great feature, but without transactions management, it won't be that much powerful."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The ability to spin up larger computes (or as they call warehouses) is amazing for the large ETL tasks. The semi-structured data support with JSON columns and querying directly into them is a true godsend.,Dislike the need to keep shutting down the servers and not being able to have it up 24/7 with reasonable costs. This means a lot of conscious effort needs to go into batching up loads to Snowflake and prevents the data warehouse from having any quick intraday usability.
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"Love that the platform integrates with many different cloud based services. Along with the ease of use, The service is great, when a ticket is submitted, they're really good at replying to your issues. When there are service interruptions, they make sure we're the first ones to know.","No stored procedures or event handling. Some services require us to pay a little extra even (such as reclustering) as it should already be included in the price. Sometimes the UI lags, but made huge improvements to the new UI."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,We love the fact that we can spin up additional warehouses on demand. We like the fact that most admin work is done by the provider,Security is not enterprise grade yet. Hard to administer and query security tables. No way to authenticate against multiple SAML providers
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,"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.",No complaints so far. It's by far the best database engine I've used.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,I like the vast amount of connectors and also their support is very fast.,I have not found anything I dislike at this moment.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,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,it is a little bit expensive and it takes awhile to set up

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,It is easy to set up and it is very flexible with data. You can store anything.,"Sometimes refresh failes, although there are ways to control it."

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,I like that compute and storage are separate and i can scale up my compute. That writes do not block reads.,The architecture is not good for web speed apps. There is too much latency per call.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Snowflake can handle the extremely large data -- on the order of thousands of TB -- that we have, and provide us with rapid results.","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."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"Compute vs store split, UI interface is generally good with some small issues","Query history interface, query history limitations, notifications about service disruptions/changes could be clearer"
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Jonathan A.",Business Analyst // Operations Lead,5,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.,The proprietary technology can turn some away with its secrets.
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Torrey V.",Senior Business Intelligence Developer,5,The performance is incredible. Queries that took hours to run on MySQL run in seconds.,The online interface is clunky. Having a desktop app would be ideal.
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Avinash D.",,5,"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",MFA needs to be supported through any tool.Operational dashboard is needed.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,Low maintenance. No more downtimes! No rebalances. Full control over compute resources.,"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."

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Padmanesh N.",Big Data Solution Architect and Spatial Data Specialist,4,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.,"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."
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,It is built for the cloud and is flexible in increasing and decreasing the size.,I can't think of anything at this time..
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Kristina C.",Integration Manager,4,We have a large amount of data which the warehouse handles without issue. It also updates frequently.,"If something goes wrong, sometimes it's difficult to get an answer as to why."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"The best parts about Snowflake are the ease of implementation, the no maintenance scalability and integration partner availability. From a storage perspective, it is extremely efficient. You can create a complete clone of a 5TB database (like a pointer) without using additional storage, only using enough storage to track changes. You can choose whether to persist the changes or create a real physical clone. This allows you to have staging copies to real-world test updates on live data before you commit them. Additionally...un-dropping dropped tables and point in time historical queries are nice too. Built in 2 factor auth is scalable.","There are small admin usability features with the UI that could be improved, but it seems like with the latest release, they have addressed some of them. Easier 2 factor enrollment would be a nice to have. Honestly, you should not be able to enroll a user without 2 factor authentication enabled."

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vidhey t.",Student,4,"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.",The pricing of the features is not the best compared to other products in the market.

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,That all our data is stored in the cloud. being 2018 this is where we need to be,that it was hard at first to get our owners to commit to the cloud

G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,Snowflake is a user friendly product that adapts to any company needs and provides technical support whenever needed.,I do not have any negative comments at this time.

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Justin E.",Business Development Executive,4,I like software. I think this is a good fit with our company because it aligns with the best interest of the customers. It allowed us create software solutions that were based on customer needs and create value and ROI with a financial spin for a software solution,I would like the functionalities of adding/deleting to be navigated easier.

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,The fact that compute is actually separated from the storage. This makes scaling so much easier but it also makes it much more cost effective. Now that they got the pricing model down to one minute increments this platform is extremely accessible no matter what size the organization and\or data.,"Loading data into the environment can be clumsy. But once you get the hang of it, it is fairly straightforward to automate with standard ETL tools."

G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"UI, Querying speed, Quality of Support, Technology Events, query concurrency and the massive scalability they support!","hey have confusing terminologies that aren't very intuitive such as Warehousing, Databases. Also, they need to make data loading a lot more intuitive and easy. It should not take me more than 5 mins of time to get this done, even when I am new to Snowflake!

Also they need to make computing more affordable or give huge enterprise discounts."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4.5,The UI is modern and the interface is intuitive. The tool is highly customizable and sits on top of Amazon S3 for seamless data access.,The interface for running SQL-like queries is clunky.
G2.COM,Verified User,,5,"Easy to deploy and give great flexibility as Snowflake automatically scale up and scale down.

Great thing about Snowflake is having fundamentally solid SQL with lots of elasticity and easily works on dynamic environment.Snowflake support diverse set of data which include both structured and non structured data. Snowflake have very good customer support and answer the user queries very quickly.","Speed and agility can be improved. Snowflake, is based on a non MPP database design which can delay automation and can take time for adhoc workload."
G2.COM,Verified User,,4,"FAST, CLOUD BASED, GOOD UI, CHEAPER THAN AMAZON REDSHIFT","MULTIPLE QUERIES CAUSES PROBLEMS RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME, MORE AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS COULD BE SUPPORTED"
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Joseph B.","Senior Manager, Data Platform",4.5,"JSON / XML parsing from s3 to nice relational tables. Stupendously easy to set up and get data in.

Cheap storage, plus standalone compute cost.

Provides a data layer where the policy can simply be, ""Is it data? Then dump it into snowflake"", which increases velocity in analytics, BI, diagnostics, and testing.","Black-boxed indexes / projections.

It's both a blessing and a curse - new architecture gets built quickly, and query performance is generally solid, but some brain-dead obvious indexing doesn't persist in some cases, which can cause certain operations to be needlessly slow."
Capterra,Daniel K,EVP Operations IT,5,"Snowflake is super fast, requires virtually no maintenance (no logs, indexes, tuning, etc.) and the pay per use price model scales perfectly with cyclical workloads which are common in data warehouse applications.",It does not natively support any real constraints such as uniqueness or referential integrity which requires the user to explicitly check all these things via stored procedures. The SQL worksheet GUI still has remove to improve but they have been rapidly enhancing it. It's not too uncommon to have brief outages but they are usually resolved within a few hours.
Capterra,David W,Head of Engineering - Data and BI,5,"The concept of Snowflake is so clever - mass amounts of micro-partitions of data, with the storage and compute separated. It is a smart product that enables so much functionality and capability. It is more than simply a database in the cloud, it is truly a feature-rich platform that offers a huge amount of functionality. I also very much like that role-based access is a fundamental part of it. Its data sharing features are terrific too.","Some things are a little tricky to figure out, like row-level policies the first time you do it, or data masking. There are no triggers. Scheduled tasks are a little limited. Stored procedures are not as simple as I'd like"

Capterra,No name,,5,"The I/O operation within the database are handled well . Repeated same query results are being cached to avoid I/O operations, which is great!",The Task functionality can have a separate UI to manage the scheduled tasks . The Web workbook could have been improved with more features.

Capterra,No name,,3,The best thing is snowflake is a cloud based Warehouse system.and it's completely based on shares nothing architecture so its gives faster performance during analysis.one more thing i like about this warehouse that the amount of time that you use the main warehouse here for that specific period of time you have to pay other than the warehouse is off for normal queries.particularly in dml statement mainly its uses the warehouse.so its manage automatically weather to use warehouse or not so it is very much good for saving money That's why now big giants company are shifting towards snowflake for cost effective purposes and the smarter and faster performance it gives.and it also provides a feature call time travel where you can back up your all deleted data in a period of 90 days.,There are two things I don't like about the snowflake is it's doesn't support unstructured data loading it's only support the structure and semi structure data. And other one is it's only support the bulk loading files so it's difficult for a small size files loading or adding some few columns on it.

Capterra,Anoop K,Senior analyst,4,"For us Snowflakes has been critical to process and store the data day in and day out. Integration with various data sources and tools, including ETL/ELT tools, BI tools, and data science platforms has been critical for our organization and the teams. Snowflake's ability to handle large amounts of data and process it quickly is impressive. The platform is adaptable and provides us with numerous options for data management. Snowflake's distinct architecture enables us to easily manage and process data. The user interface is simple, and the platform is dependable.",Lately the new user interface is not comfortable and is confusing. The older user interface was much more easier. At times query performance issues are observed and timeout happens. Also cost per query is concern and expensive. Cost should be priced reasonable.

Capterra,Aleksandr H.,Sr. Software Engineer,5,If you know SQL this is an easy product to use. I love that it can search on JSON and it allows us to create very custom User Defined Functions that can use multiple languages such as JS and Python as well as SQL.,Setting up the permissions can be confusing and complicated.

Capterra,Suru s,Bog data engineer,4,"Using Snowflake has been a great experience; I appreciate how easy it is to view, analyse, and produce reports that are helpful for the organization's business. Its cloud nature, eliminates the need to install software and does not affect how our machines work at all during analysis, is another feature I thoroughly appreciate. I adore how it offers many modernised SQL capabilities as well as practical tools for protecting data which can be sensitive in nature.","The capability to launch numerous queries is absent. The searches occasionally take longer than usual, and with no estimated time as to how long it takes is agonising. There could be a history tab for instance to see all the previous queries written or executed so it can be easy to refer and take part of the previous query instead of writing it again from scratch. There is no straightforward way to convert the SQL queries to Snowflake."
Capterra,No name,,5,"Performance is outstanding. No explicit maintenance is needed. High availability. No need to worry about SQL processing speed, easy scalability.",Quit expensive while comparing to other database.
Capterra,Jonathan T.,SCADA Systems Engineer,5,It is through Snowflake that we eradicated the need for data scientists since it offers self-service data modeling tools that help model and visualize data.,"I haven't used Snowflake for quite long, but I have never had any challenge for the entire duration I have turned to it."

Capterra,Mansi M.,Software engineer,5,"I like best that they have unified all the data-relevant features on one platform, so be it a single database or end-to-end data management, all can be done using snowflake. I was able to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, all in one place.",Their support team was a little slow in addressing my queries. I belive they can improve their onboarding process.

Capterra,No name,,5,"Snowflake is exteremely stable and easy to setup. I was able to turn it on and have a reliable Data Warehouse that didn't require me having a lot of cloud knowledge to administrate. The database administration through the UI is intuitive and the Roles dynamic helps with implementing good data governance and compliance pratics inside the company. Snowflake also offers user security options out of the box, which was a huge improvement for us. The doccumentation is very well written and SnowSQL offest a lot of useful functions. The main improvement on this front was how Snowflake treats JSON, which helped us a lot.","If your revenue is not on US dollars, Snowflake is an expensive product, there is no way around that. It is indeed a very good service that charges accordingly. We are using the smallest cluster possible and it was necessary to do some convincing inside the company to approve it for our budget. That being said, the smallest cluster we are using is more than enough for our needs and will be for a long time, so it will take a long time for this cost to increase again, but it was a pretty big budget increase initially."
Capterra,Todd G.,Business Intelligence Developer,5,"The thing that I like most about this software is really if you can think it you can do it with Snowflake. I mean as long as it deals with data. I first started at my company using oracle and I didn't stick with that for long because we adopted snowflake. When we started using snowflake my knowledge of SQL just jumped sky high. Instead of just selecting from tables, I was using cte's and partitions and all of that fun stuff. Snowflake made it super easy to understand and learn. The ability it has to handle the amount of columns that it does is amazing.", There is a little bit of a learning curve to get the hang of it. But on the surface it is just like any other sql language and you just have to figure out the different quirks that it has. I wish it could give data instantaneously and read my mind on what I want but that is pretty much impossible so I'm going to stick with what I have.
Capterra,MANAS M.,Sr software engineer,5,"This is a fully managed cloud data-warehousing solution , or database as a service, the advantage of this with the traditional server based database is the performance boost, here the warehouse or the computing power and data storage is fully decoupled, this means , you can pay for what you need, your warehouse can be in sleep when its not in use so you save money, you can modify the size of warehouse so you get your performance as you want, and it supports the advance queries like 'copy' into local files and s3 etc .., coming to the operations, the snowflake has query history well maintained with importance performance metrics , and they have a good support team who responds quick, they have a web workbench which stores our query on different tabs with different configurations, they have role based authentication for each elements on database, they have good documentations and community for an help regarding the queries etc..","we use to have some outages in the past, which was resolved quick, now a days i don't see those that's a good thing, if you are trying to migrate from a psql to snowflake then some query syntaxes will be different"
Capterra,Mahesh K.,Lead analyst,5,"This is a cloud database and warehousing service, the syntax of snowflake is like psql, they have a good community support and good documentations for all the queries, they are faster than traditional databases, and the are charged separately for compute power and the storage space , which makes it usable in a flexible cost effective manor, good support team, always respond and try to resolve the issues if any was reported, and also helped us identify any cost saving scope","The System esoterically shows outage, these type of outages are informed to use by the support team, and they resolve it quickly, a minute potion of the syntax of sql is slightly different from psql, which makes it hard to migrate the application from different psql service providers"
Capterra,Robert G.,Developer,4,"Exceptionally easy to scale up or out based on needs, and some nice cost-saving features like auto-suspend/resume for compute stuff. It supports ANSI SQL so it's not the end of the world to port over code from legacy SQL platforms. It also has a ton of integrations with your cloud provider of choice (as long as it's GCP, AWS, or Azure). According to their roadmap it will support Python eventually as well as their current SQL and JavaScript syntax for stored procs. Just a ton of functionality out of the box.","Pricing isn't the MOST transparent at first glance, but is fairly intuitive/controllable once you understand it . The current WebUI is absolute garbage. Luckily that's being deprecated for ""Snowsight"". Role inheritance and object ownership also has a decent learning curve compared to SQL Server, for example. This isn't a knock against Snowflake, but users should not expect this to have the same sort of OLTP-type performance and a typical relational DBMS. Just know the limits."

Capterra,Mithun G.,PM,5,"Snowflake is very easy to use and can easily connect to different cloud platforms like AWS, GCP and Azure. The fact that it can be hosted on any of these platforms makes it portable and easy to use. The access and security is very flexible and scalable. The fact that storage and compute are separate makes it ideal for use with big data warehouses where usage can be monitored easily and can be charged back ti the appropriate business unit. More and more features are getting added to it which makes it a flexible, scalable data warehouse in cloud.",The warehouse currently does not support procedural languages and some of the datatypes do not align with some other popular databases which makes it difficult for migration to Snowflake. The cost is little bit on the higher side.

Capterra,Vishal V.,Snowflake Architect,5,"Snowflake is easy to onboard and adopt, implement, easy to use.",Limited monitoring capability and data analytics features.

Capterra,Matthew C,"Director, Professional Services",5,"The ""Time Travel"" aspect of Snowflake, being able to pick a point in time and see the state/contents of nearly any table is astonishing. Very useful and impressive feature. What is equally as impressive is the overall performance of the platform. I've worked with Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Vertica, Teradata, ParAccel, and others. Maybe not always in the most optimal configurations, but Snowflake's performance has been overall the best in my experience.","As a newer platform, there are certain convenience elements that Snowflake lacks. - No auto-complete of object names. - No ""easy"" import wizard to import data. - Some bugs with the browser-based interface (worksheets did not properly save). - Limited customizations to filter out the tables or objects you don't work with regularly. Always shows full list, oftentimes very large."
Capterra,Andrew K.,"Senior Program Manager, Data Operations",5,"Snowflake's Worksheets interface is easy for SQL novices to figure out because it's simple and straightforward, which is exactly the opposite of many competitors. On other platforms, novices are easily intimidated because of the complexity, but Snowflake does a great job of keeping it simple and clean. Their documentation is also good, but it's not as novice-friendly as I would like.","Script error messages could be more specific and helpful with identifying errors and troubleshooting. For example, linking directly to the relevant section of their documentation, based on the type of error. Again, this is something that advanced users probably wouldn't mind too much, but for novice or even intermediate users, this can be the difference between spending a few minutes troubleshooting versus hours of head-scratching."
Capterra,No name,,4,"The computation power and storage capacity in decoupled (pay for what you want) it provides a good query history and query analysis feature, and also query metadata help's us in understanding the performance issues if any the support team responds quick and good, they have a good web UI workbench to work on and it auto stores our work, the provide a snowflake outage dashboard which can show the down time of snowflake if any","some syntax's are different from psql, could have been the same so that the migrations wold have been easier the web UI workbench is bit slow in initial page load time, some times we face some issues not frequently , but the support team tries to resolve it immediately, and the support team notifies us if there are any known outages that are about to happen"
Capterra,Emmet M,Staff Software Engineer,5,"We switched from Redshift to Snowflake for two primary reasons: 1. Snowflake's virtual warehouses allow scaling reliably, whereas Redshift becomes unstable; 2. First-class JSON support. Having switched to Snowflake, data warehouse administration has gone from nightmare to almost nothing. We continue to scale our data and analytics, and Snowflake handles it easily.","Snowflake's approach to sales and support is a blend of on-demand cloud offering and enterprise tool. They could improve certain aspects, such as simplifying the set up of Snowpipe to stream data from AWS. But these are minor features involved in initial setup."
Capterra,"Nathan Patrick T.
",Chief Information Officer,4,The ability to load data in using tools like Alteryx is a major plus. Snowflake also integrated well with our data science platform. The management of users and access was very simple to use and understand.,Building out incremental loading was difficult and did not save us time in comparison to our incumbent solution. The pricing structure for usage was nebulous. We did not fully understand the pricing model until that renewal period at the end of the year which included fees that were not mentioned during the sales process.
Capterra,Kristin G,Business Systems Manager,5,Snowflake is an industry leader and has ample connectors to all data sources. They integrate flawlessly with our BI platform and allow for management by a 3rd party. Compute power is FAST and easily scalable.,"Snowflake, like most, has its own dialect for SQL - not necessarily a bad thing but something to adjust to. There is no data cap, so data usage can get expensive."
Capterra,No name,,5,"The three features of many great features that stand out are: -The REAL separation of compute and storage gives the ultimate flexibility. You can match workloads to the proper level of compute without having one workload collide with another. You can optimize what you spend by only using what you need with the ability to change the size of your compute multiple times a day and the ability to stop and resume compute nodes easily. -No other database I have ever used can handle concurrency like Snowflake. Additional clusters are automatically spun up if a query is queued -There is no tuning that needs to be done as this is a data warehouse as a service. No other database comes close to the Snowflake performance without additional tuning. I can put in some time and tune my Oracle, Teradata or HANA database to get similar or slightly better performance but the level of DBA needed to do this is costly. This is especially helpful when the query patterns to be run against the database are unknown.",One of the positives above can also be a negative. Snowflake is a service and not software that you can run in your own data center or your own cloud VPC. This CON can be overcome with end to end encryption where you own the key and other Snowflake features.
Capterra,Ryan M.,Senior Research Analyst,5,I like that it has a really good interface that is easily accessible. We were using AWS before this and it was really hard to get the connections right. Keeping track of the drivers and everything was really complicated and I never got it to work as seamlessly as Snowflake,I like that it has a really good interface that is easily accessible. We were using AWS before this and it was really hard to get the connections right. Keeping track of the drivers and everything was really complicated and I never got it to work as seamlessly as Snowflake
Capterra,Shreyansh S.,Freelancer,5," This is a cloud-based application that gives me a safe stage to the simple sharing of information with my customers. I feel sure to associate with my various colleagues as a result of its high level security and successful programming. Through this instrument, I am equipped for incorporating, dissecting, and the whole information in an exact structure and with investigation also, because of which I generally have a straightforward thought regarding the information extraction and its exchange from numerous mists.","Security jobs and access are difficult to comprehend and oversee Rollout of new components appears to intensely support US West coast, every other person needs to pause Visual interface doesn't permit you to oversee custom capacities and schedules. For those, it is code as it were. The board of tables and perspectives is visual"

Capterra,Vandit D.,Business analyst,5,"Processing is very fast, as someone who switched over from Microsoft Sql server this works very fast and has the same documentation. The documentation library is also very helpful and the forums are always readily available to compare commands from SSMS vs Snowflake", It doesn't let you customize column order after the results have been generated. It also downloads a csv everytime you want see the output which just creates more work.
Capterra,Pinki D,Manage Data in Snowflake Data Warehouse,4,Its very fast and easy to use. Execution of query is very fast and manage caching for improving performance. For getting data from different different databases its easy to get the data with snowflakes.,As I have used Sql server so some times it's difficult to find syntax. Finding error if you have long query and showing ambiguous error then its very difficult to resolve as not suggest any line number. Tabs are not movable which I don't like.
Capterra,Ajay s,Analytics Analyst,5,query response time is way quicker compared to any other product.," I don't see any cons in the product, I like the way it works and gets me the results"
Capterra,Theresa A.,Sr Data engineer,5,"The convenience of a single data lake that can be sectioned off in any way needed paired with a pricing model that encourages a high volume of data storage and ease of use make Snowflake an enjoyable tool to navigate. They've developed a solid community for knowledge sharing and have experienced, competent staff.","It can take a minute to remember which admin account needs to be used for performing specific actions. Sometimes pressure may be felt to save multiple queries and run them close together rather than sporadically to minimize computation costs, although after the first minute these are billed by the second and the pressure lessens."
Capterra,No name,,5,"Snowflake is a database and a storage warehouse on the cloud. Since it's scalable on demand, retrieving data through Snowflake Warehouses is lighting fast. All the computing power required to run the SQL queries are taken care by the Warehouse size we choose. If a query is taking too long to run a quick switch to a bigger warehouse does wonders. Migrating and loading data into Snowflake is a breeze too via Snowflake Stages and COPY TO commands."," Snowflake doesn't enforce constraints, especially primary keys. So, care should be taken while doing INSERTs and UPSERTs to maintain data integrity. This lack of this feature is understandable since it's projected more as a storage warehouse."
Capterra,Vipul C.,Data engineer,5,very easy to integrate with all our other tools,Honestly having a tough time coming up with what I like lease. Maybe some of the UI
Capterra,Billy s,Data analyst,4, It is able to hold and process extremely large amounts of data in a timely manner. It also allows you to organize the data and limit access which roles have access to which data.,"There are two features that could use improvement. First is the inability to move tabs with different code around. This makes it impossible to organize tabs that go along with certain projects which is frustrating. It also saves every tab you ever created even when you delete the tab. While I understand this can be helpful if you accidently delete something, it would be nice to have the option to delete the cached tabs if I wanted to."
Capterra,Subramanian S.,Senior Consultant,5,High PerformanceSecuredEncryption and Data Masking FeaturesMany new SQL Functions,Client Tool to Query Data needs to be improved
Capterra,Nitin P,Product Analyst,5," Snowflake is being utilized as a data warehousing system based on cans. We're utilizing Snowflake and additional tools like HVR and Dell Boomi to create a data lake. Currently, different business teams are using different systems for reporting and analytics purposes. We're now working on a centralized solution for the entire company.",Snowflake has its limitation when dealing with unstructured data
Capterra,Uddipan M,Sr Data Engineer,5,"Snowflake is very easy to use and scale. It provides helpful features like merge, JSON flattening which are very handy options. Snowflake cloud SQL editor is very fast and helps easy developments.",It can be a costly solution if optimizations are not planned accordingly.
Capterra,No name,,4,We use Snowflake to capture some of our larger third party data exports that won't fit into Google Sheets. The process of uploading data is straightforward and keeps our business reporting streamlined despite lean engineering resources on our end. There is a SQL interface to make modifications to data before final exports and data viz.,The UI is clunky and not the most intuitive. The error messages could be more detailed and expanded. The support for Mac seems to be more limited. Encountered issues with data produced via Mac and support took months to fully resolve.

Capterra,Pawan M,Software Engineer,5,The feature I like the most in snowflake is it's ease of use and excellent support., Sometimes the response time of portal increases which anyone hates. Understanding the data-structures is not always easy.
Capterra,Dan S.,SA,4, Web UI Virtual Warehouses Secure Product Auto-Scaling S3 integration Public Cloud Hosting Forward thinking vendor,Would be good if there was a RESTful API interface with ability to query tables returning JSON format
Capterra,Alex Z.,"Senior Manager, Strategy and Insights",5,I really like the speed and the quality of the Snowflake UI. It is the easiest database tool I have ever used in my career., It is costly to use Snowflake so as a company you always have to fight for the value it brings to the company as a whole.
Capterra,No name,,5,"We can schedule the data synchronization timelines, and store the data for analytical and reporting purposes.","I don't find any thing to dislike, it serves the purpose of data warehousing for reporting."
Capterra,No name,,5,Snowflake Marketplace is well thought out and the data connector fabric is easy to understand and implement,"Initial upfront documentation was a little difficult to navigate but once we got a hang of it, setting up everything else was relatively simple"
Capterra,Edwin Q.,BI Lead,4,Fast and reliable data warehouse. It cost effective and scalable that fits in our business model,The visualisation feature. Maybe it is still in early stage and still lots of room for improvement
Capterra,No name,,5,Big Data with Simple SQL - it is amazing how easy this product is to use but still as the horsepower to process billions of rows of data without a sweat. The separation of storage-compute and cloud provider agnostic environment support is the best.,"Snowflake is expensive if used ""incorrectly"". Users need to be extremely skilled to be able to reduce cost on the platform and use virtual WHs appropriately."
Capterra,No name,,4,Configuring the Warehouses can give you endless possibilities,There are some implicit casts in data types sometimes that seem to be the default behavior
Capterra,No name,,5,"Snowflake is a FAST alternative to a software like microsoft sql server. The data is well organized in the cloud, which allows you to pull from it quickly. SQL queries that used to take 20 minutes now only take 10 seconds. The interface is user-friendly and looks great.","There are a couple of nuances that you need to know when you start using Snowflake. If you have someone to help you learn the few things that are unique about writing code with snowflake, you won't have a problem."
Capterra,No name,,4,"Snowflake is incredibly flexible and versatile. There are numerous ways to get data into Snowflake, even if there is not already an API built out for the source. The tool has many pre-built integrations as well.","Though it is very flexible, one thing that Snowflake does not handle is unstructured data. This can be a problem if your sources heavily rely on this type of data. They say they are going to support it in the future, but as of right now, they do not."
Capterra,No name,,4,"It's fast. It's simple. It's scalable. And best of all, we saved forty percent from switching off of redshift.",You can't connect easily from a sql editor outside of their browser or the command line. That makes it less convenient.

Capterra,Tanusree P.,Software developer,5,snowflake has been a key business partner for major companies BI solutions and I have great experience learning and using it,Snowflake had been an integral part of BI solutions and self service BI analytics for the mega clients projects I have worked with.It is seamlessly integrated with other warehouse databases. Storage and compute modules can be separately managed and help users to tune as per requirement

Capterra,Ju L,Regional Director Solutions Engineering,5,They just added visualization and it is amazing. Super fast to run queries and extremely easy to use and share.,Easy to spend way too much money. The compute credits go out fast if you don't monitor them closely.
Capterra,Catherine H.,Analyst,4,"The interface is very attractive, it is extremely fast to query huge datasets, and there is a strong online community of users to learn from.","I think it has the possibility to be a great software for querying huge databases, but some of the basic uses of that data are hard to come by - it is difficult to interface with Microsoft products."
Capterra,Tanya B.,Head of Marketing,4,We used Snowflake after multiple attempts with other clouds and to say it was powerful is the least. It connects all data sources and allows to create a solid data warehouse essential for all BI reporting etc.,"Complicated Billing (on purpose?), sometimes waiting for query load can be long and bothersome, could still use UI improvements"
Capterra,Martin S.,Student,5,"A very innovative platform. Very secure. Great interface. Doing great things with Amazon, Google, etc.",Takes some times to get used to but not a huge deal in the end.
Capterra,Darren O.,Associate Strategist,5,"Product is easy to use to go along with a Udemy course I am taking. If making an error in how I input the SQL, it will point out to me where my error was, making it easy to correct.","So far I don't have any, as I'm still in the learning phase and wouldn't know if any limitations are based on the software, or based on my limited knowledge."
Capterra,Dinesh S.,Technical Consultant,4,"I almost used all the OLAP databases but this is what I loved a lot, less in price Great Performance & User Friendly.","Few features still in queue like explain plan, stored procedures"
Capterra,No name,,5,Easy setup and configuration. The Ability to scale up and scale down at needed. Pay as you go and only for what you use.,"Limited to AWS currently with planned expansion to Azure and GCP. On-Premise is not an option, but VPC is."
Capterra,Jeet v.,Program manager,5,1. Cloud based 2. Costing based in usage 3. Good performance 4. Access management an governance,License cost but does the job as per expectation
Capterra,Kyle A,Data engineer,5, Very powerful and fast. Easy to integrate with AWS pipelines. Snowpipes and tasks are great.,Permissions can be difficult to use sometimes.
Capterra,John L.,Data Analyst,5,"With Snowflake, developing and deploying a cloud based relational database infrastructure has never been simpler.",Support for unstructured data could be better.
Capterra,No name,,4,My favorite feature in Snowflake is the ease of use provided by SnowSQL. You can create variables in SQL that you reference throughout your queries. It additionally performs super fast and reduces many management needs.,"Snowflake lacks the ability to create stored procedures, this would add a lot of value and ease of use to the software. While the lack of management is great, I find that it may not always be worth the cost for it. In addition to this, it does not perform well (or at all) as an ETL Tool."
Capterra,Himanshu P.,Solution Director,4,User friendly and easy setup for the AZure based setup,Cost is very high and not transparent for production grade systems
Capterra,Christopher M.,Sales Engineer,4,Easy to get started if you are familiar with traditional data warehousing,It gets expensive as soon as you use the additional functionality
Capterra,Nick C.,IT Security Specialist,5,"Snowflake is amazingly fast, which for all your queries on the data means less time to get business changing data. Snowflake is able to handle mixed data.", It is quite the process to get all the data sources linked to Snowflake. It wasn't to hard to get them connected but if this is your first experience like it was for me than there is going to be a learning curve.

Capterra,Nick K.,Head of Security,5,Fantastic performance without worrying about tuning or data set size.,None! Really fantastic experience for our data teams.

Capterra,Joel R.,Product,4,Snowflake is a no fluff software that gets you data results FAST. There isn't much you have to worry about or learn to simply start using it. Since it's cloud based you session is alway saved and you can pick up right where you last started. Love that about it.,"It's very basic, compared to other tools. So if that is what you are looking for then it isn't an issue."

Capterra,Tanika S.,Data Analyst,3,1 - I like the way it stores the big data. 2 - Convenient to connect with tableau for visualizations.,"1 - Costly if data is too big 2 - You can't own the data, you have to depend on the Data Engineering team."
Capterra,Nathan B,Product Manager,3,I love how straightforward and performant the solution was,"Data visualisation was a little lacking, meaning you had to tether to a system like Google Data Studio or Sigma/Tableau to make sense of the data"
Capterra,Ajay c,SSE,5,The way snowflake supports integration with multiple data sources has made data migration very easy. The time travel feature lets you move to the previous stage of the data it has helped me a lot in many situations. Most importantly the service is very cost-effective and runs very fast in any browser.,There are no negatives I have noted till now all the features are top-notch up to the industry mark.
Capterra,Siddharth ,Software Analyst,5,Snowflake db is a cloud based db the most interesting part of this software is that it is cload based and is giving competition to major vandors.,It's really costlier to buy and one should be specially trained in it