Snowflake: Very Flexible Data Warehouse with Great, Scalable Capabilities
December 19, 2024

Snowflake: Very Flexible Data Warehouse with Great, Scalable Capabilities

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Snowflake

We use Snowflake as a data warehouse and as an analytics environment. It stores data captured rom production and transformed data tables built for various use cases. These data sets are then piped into other BI tools for self serve analysis or queried directly within Snowflake to answer various analyses / business questions.

Pros

  • Ease of Use: sophisticated enough for technical users but navigable enough for analysts / business users
  • Structured: easy to trace lineages and how different data sets are related to each other
  • Integration: easy to connect to other systems

Cons

  • AI capabilities: not much in terms of integrated machine learning or AI workflow capabilities
  • Relative cost: you get what you pay for, but it is relatively more expensive than some other options
  • Increased analysis speed
  • Lessened time spend on data management / documentation
It is very intuitively organized even for non-technical users. Despite being used by multiple teams for various different purposes along the data pipeline, it's simply organized enough for all these teams to use without getting lost in a mess. It doesn't feel overwhelming to use or wrap your head around how data is structured.
These are comparable products that can make sense depending on the specific needs of your organization. All are certainly serviceable and have varying pros and cons. Snowflake seems to provide the greatest degree of flexibility and easy scalability as new data gets brought into the warehouse, which can be very valuable to have.

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

It works really well if you want one data warehouse that is very flexible, has many capabilities, and can serve multiple different use cases. It works great for a scaled tech company, but imagine for other businesses in different industries or different scales there could be other solutions that make more sense.

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