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What is Snowflake?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed,…

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Snowflake a great data warehousing tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 17, 2025
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We work as a team setting up the Snowflake environment for our clients, which includes setting up production, development, and testing environments, setting up the role-based ...
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Engineer
Snowflake3 years of experience

Your data team will love Snowflake, just be sure to manage cost

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 13, 2025
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Our company has grown organically and by acquisition, and as a result we have a series of disparate software products with around 800 databases across different clouds and dif...
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David Williams
Manager - Information Technology
Head of Engineering
Damstra Technology
Snowflake2 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Performs well

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 18, 2024
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we use it to find information on orders and supply chain issues. we also use it for various AI/ML and data science projects.
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Matt Lee
Analyst - Other
Sr Data Analyst
Apple
Snowflake4 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Snowflake - a scalable, secure and cost effective cloud based data storage platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 13, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
At Numerator, Snowflake is used as a cloud based data storage platform and it also provides robust data warehousing solutions. The amount of data at Numerator is at a very lar...
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Sahil Khan
Analyst - Product Management
Data Analyst
Numerator
Snowflake3 years of experience

Snowflake - a modern cloud based Datawarehouse solution with great features!

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 24, 2024
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Snowflake is giving a very robust cloud-based data warehousing solution with all the benefits of going to the cloud. Data sharing is one critical area in data management and S...
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Yogesh Kulkarni
Professional - Information Technology
Principal Consultant
Infosys
Snowflake2 years of experience
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What is Snowflake?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.snowflake.com/pricing

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is Snowflake?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.

Snowflake Data Marketplace gives data scientists, business intelligence and analytics professionals, and everyone who desires data-driven decision-making access to live and ready-to-query data from your ecosystem of business partners and customers, and from potentially thousands of data providers and data service providers.

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Snowflake Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.

Amazon Web Services and Databricks Data Intelligence Platform are common alternatives for Snowflake.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Snowflake are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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(1-5 of 7)

Great DW tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 27, 2019
EF
Eric Fischer
Senior Product Manager - Data Solutions
Accruent (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
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Verified User
Snowflake
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Snowflake for basic data munging from OLTP databases, APIs, etc. It is only used in our sizable Data department. It solves the problem of spinning up and managing a DW quickly without dedicated DBA support.
Pros
  • A nice UI with options to see the SQL/Code to automate steps in the UI.
  • Has great SQL features like LISTAGG or Count Distinct, which go above and beyond Oracle and MS SQL.
  • It's very fast!
Cons
  • The SQL editor. The worksheets are nice, but code editors today have auto-fill, debug highlighters, etc. They are working on this I'm told.
  • Worksheets (where you edit SQL) cannot be exported today.
  • Occasionally a bug is introduced during releases. It's no big deal.
Likelihood to Recommend
Snowflake is great for quick dirty analysis.

Scalable cloud data warehouse with fair pricing

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2024
Verified User
Professional in Other
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Snowflake
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Snowflake as our central data warehouse where we collect raw data from various different source systems and combine, harmonize, and transform them into reporting-ready formats. This helps us to better understand behavioral patterns amongst our customers, better understand the financials, the usage of our products, Go To Market strategies etc.
Pros
  • Scalability and Performance
  • Auto-Suspend and Auto-Resume
  • Ingestion of Real-Time data via Snowpipe
Cons
  • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
  • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for small and large scenarios. Very well suited for structured and semi-structured (e.g. JSON) data. Maybe less ideal for photo / video materials as there are cheaper storage alternatives.

Amazing cloud-based DB

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 25, 2019
TV
Torrey Vegter
Senior Data Engineer
Outsell (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
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Verified User
Snowflake
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Snowflake on our Data Engineering team to house our data warehouse and offload a substantial amount of our ETL processes to Snowflake. Snowflake enables us to offer ultra-fast querying to the business to quickly gain insights into our current data set.
Pros
  • Extremely intuitive and easy to use querying language.
  • Allows high performance querying of large data sets with very little setup and configuration.
  • Interfaces very easily with AWS S3.
  • Works seamlessly with both structured and unstructured data sets.
  • Very granular security.
Cons
  • IDE is OK but can be a bit clunky given it's web-based.
Likelihood to Recommend
Snowflake works extremely well for storing a data warehouse as the querying is optimized for larger tables that are filled in batches. It also works extremely well with unstructured data and has basically replaced any need we previously had for NoSQL databases. Snowflake does not perform well for transactional databases.

Snowflake Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 20, 2022
Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Snowflake
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I work on data analysis of multiple projects and use snowflake to write queries, pull data, and do some analysis. Typically, I use Snowflake to pull data from database in order to check the current status or pull experiment results for some tests we run. I like to use app. Snowflake instead of the main site.
Pros
  • Speed
  • UI
  • Short keys
Cons
  • Auto formatting
  • Organizing multiple queries/projects
Likelihood to Recommend
Snowflake is a very good tool for analysis, easily used.

Snowflake - a scalable, secure and cost effective cloud based data storage platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 13, 2024
SK
Sahil Khan
Data Analyst
Numerator (Market Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Snowflake
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
At Numerator, Snowflake is used as a cloud based data storage platform and it also provides robust data warehousing solutions. The amount of data at Numerator is at a very large scale and it is growing very fast, Snowflake manages this large volume of data very efficiently. We also use Snowflake for analytical purposes, it provide us a platform to run SQL queries to analyze our data and create dashboards.
Pros
  • Snowflake provides faster data warehousing solutions.
  • Snowflake can be easily integrated and connected with other third party tools.
  • Snowflake does well in ETL and ELT task.
Cons
  • Snowflake can provide more data visualization options in their worksheets.
  • In Snowflake worksheet, the query results are cached for 24 hours and it is not possible to see the query result after 24 hours. Snowflake can provide option to see query results even after 24 hours, that will be very helpful.
  • Snowflake can implement more data masking and encryption options.
Likelihood to Recommend
Snowflake is very well suited for all data storage and data warehousing needs of your business. As Snowflake is a cloud based platform, so you only pay for what you use, independent of the scale of your business. Snowflake can be used to store your data securely. Snowflake is slightly less appropriate for analytical purposes because it provides very limited data visualization options with very less feature.
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