Overall Satisfaction with Snowflake
Snowflake is used as the central data warehouse for data coming from all divisions of the College. Once in Snowflake, we use a variety of business intelligence tools to pull the data and do reporting and analysis. It also allows us to spend as we grow our data needs, rather than spending a huge up-front investment.
- Efficient handling of large data sets in a scalable way
- Ability to connect from a variety of tools (Tableau, Metabase, JDBC, many more)
- Querying and output of data in JSON format
- Built-in query and export tools
- Security roles and access are hard to understand and manage
- Rollout of new features seems to heavily favor US West coast, everyone else has to wait
- Visual interface does not allow you to manage custom functions and routines. For those, it is code only. Management of tables and views is visual.
- Scalability
- Cost Controls
- JSON data
- SQL-based language
- Cloud
- Allowed us to start small and grow rapidly without any software/hardware concerns
- No negative impacts
- End result is ability to analyze more data and make smarter business decisions
Azure and Snowflake compared very similarly, but Snowflake provided more options to integrate and connect with tools/companies that were not partners. It seemed to be a more flexible environment. The barrier for entry on Oracle and Google we just too complicated. In particular, working in the Google environment felt like learning an entirely new language and was highly technical. We were up and running with Snowflake in less than a day, without advanced technical knowledge about cloud platforms. Oracle was both complicated and extremely expensive.
Do you think Snowflake delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Snowflake's feature set?
Yes
Did Snowflake live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Snowflake go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Snowflake again?
Yes