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    Computer Software

A great Solution for Data Warehouse

  • March 26, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
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 .
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have the Data Warehouse in Snowflake which is the central storage for our business data. The computing is faster allowing large and complex ETLs to execute quickly.


    Monish K.

Snowflake busted up our performance

  • March 22, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
snowflake query analysis , query history metadata & snowflake support
What do you dislike about the product?
some syntax changes, and the drop downs are some times slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we have built a parallel query executes based on query dependency , which wouldn't be possible without snowflake
Recommendations to others considering the product:
improve your performance


    Mike N.

Great product

  • March 20, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a fast, stable, built for cloud Electronic Data Warehouse for our data platform, and Snowflake has fit the bill perfectly. Management of our databases has become an easy activity with Snowflake, as there is very little management overhead compared to similar offerings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great product. Make sure to calculate your usage and thus gauge pricing effectively.


    Piyush C.

Great Query Time

  • March 20, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Query time is consistent and provides good analyst experience
What do you dislike about the product?
UI needs to improve a bit with better ability to visualize data schema
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Day-to-day data crunching happens in Snowflake. Benefits are querying speed leading to better analyst experience
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Understand their architecture in detail to better tap into their full potential. A comparative study with your current system can provide you in-depth understanding of their USP


    Financial Services

snowflake good

  • March 20, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
it is good dwh and working well in our env
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing its all good in dwh in our organization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it saves dba resource


    Ricardo L.

Minimum overhead, good query performance

  • March 15, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
Even having JDBC and ODBC drivers, the ecosystem with native integration is still small compared to other more established products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data warehousing with good analytical query performance is what Snowflake delivers. Its technology makes data ingestion easy too. It also delivers great features for cost management.


    Financial Services

User Review for Snowflake

  • March 15, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Its pretty fast. Mush faster than contemporaries
What do you dislike about the product?
UI is not responsive and goes down quite a bit
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating a Datamart as centralised source of data.


    Computer Software

Snowflake makes building a data warehouse / data lake easy

  • March 14, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
* 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
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake's capable platform allows us to stitch together disparate data sets and build strategic insights. We've built analytics products that can pull from Product, CRM, and a multitude of Operational data sets. Some of our data sets are huge, but that's not been a problem for Snowflake.


    Hospital & Health Care

Fantastic platform for your big data needs

  • March 14, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Scalable, great user interface, familiar SQL language
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that I can think of that I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data insights for the biopharma, life sciences markets


    Entertainment

Great cloud data warehouse!

  • March 14, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Ability to add additional compute power (warehouses) to run SQL's. Also, each warehouse shows costs associated with running tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
show commands. Lack of filtering and ordering results in a non-standard order.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building Analytics Database for data scientists.