Item: Snowflake
Rating: 9
Author: Shiv Shrotriya

Overall Satisfaction with Snowflake

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snowflake is being used as a could based data warehousing solution. We are building a data lake using Snowflake and other tools such as HVR and Dell Boomi. Currently, we are having different solutions used by different business teams for reporting and analytics purposes. Now we are building a centralized solution for the entire organization.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Cloud-based Data warehousing
Very fast data processing and Analytics
easy to learn and work

Cons

limitation with unstructured data
while importing data from other sources only bulk load

Return on Investment

Centralized database used across the organization
easy to develop the solutions
cloud based solution so minimum support needed

Support Rating

Snowflake allows storage and computing to scale independently, so customers can use and pay for storage and computation separately. This cloud-based solution requires minimum support once the development is completed. Complex calculation and computation are very fast using Snowflake.

Key Insights

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

Usability

Snowflake is a cloud-based Data Warehouse solution provided as a Saas (Software-as-a-Service) with full support for ANSI SQL. It also has a unique architecture that enables users to just create tables and start querying data with very few administration or DBA activities needed. It can automatically detect anomalies and notifies you instantly.

Contract Terms and Pricing Model

Likelihood to Recommend

Snowflake is a cloud-based warehousing solution that is very quick and easy to maintain. Snowflake stores data in blocks by compressing the data. This allows query processing to be much faster compared to fetching rows. Also, you can change the resource consumption as per need. It has limitations while working with unstructured data.

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Cloud-based Data Warehouse solution provided as a Saas.