Snowflake

Snowflake

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Snowflake	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A

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Snowflake
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Considered Both Products	Snowflake Computing Verified User Chose Snowflake Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Lee Sr Data Analyst at Apple (Computer Hardware, 10,001+ employees) Chose Snowflake Snowflake stacks up well against many of the other players in the space. We used Teradata before and it seems to perform better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake We needed scalability and a new way of organizing our data; Snowflake allowed us to have a clearer view of our data warehouses and schemas. Snowflake is also way superior in terms of speed and quick insights from the raw data you query, which is very valuable to us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Snowflake has an attractive pricing model with auto-suspend and auto-resume and pay per use. AWS Redshift requires higher administrative efforts to maintain and scale the platform whereas with Snowflake those admin tasks are not needed or automatically taken care of. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Cloud -Native architecture, Separation of Storage and Compute provides flexibility, Scalable Compute, Cost and Data Security Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Pierce, MBA Data Warehouse Engineer in Information Technology at Vivint (Wholesale, 10,001+ employees) Chose Snowflake We had a MS SQL server with over 2 TB of ram & 51 processors that we were using, that could no longer handle our workload. Snowflake can handle 3 times that workload with ease and efficiency. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Snowflake is much faster and easier to write queries and pull data. But the visualization part of Snowflake is not as good as them. Also, Snowflake only supports SQL queries but not python or other languages. So basically Snowflake is the expert in its field but not suitable … Incentivized Helpful? David Williams Head of Engineering in Information Technology at Damstra Technology (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Snowflake We particularly liked Snowflake's security model as well as its unique storage (whereby everything is essentially a pointer to immutable micro-partitions, which is the key behind its zero-copy cloning, its secure sharing, its time travel, etc.). and also how it separates … Incentivized Helpful? Yogesh Kulkarni Principal Consultant in Information Technology at Infosys (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Snowflake While Snowflake is more open to cloud eco system, SAP integrated well with SAP eco system products like SAP ECC or SAP S/4. So for people who have invested heavily in SAP eco system including SAP ECC or S/4, it makes sense to go with SAP DWC which is also evolving very rapidly. … Incentivized Helpful? Harvey Wyche Director of Technical Product Management in Product Management at Catalina Marketing (Marketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose Snowflake In my opinion, the other tools have similar and some different features; however, when I ran proof of technologies between Synapse and Snowflake. Snowflake did things better or just had functionality that the other tools did not. One that stuck out at the time was scale up … Incentivized Helpful? dave withers Sr Director in Engineering at Spireon (Information Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Snowflake Each of the other solutions were cloud vendor specific, Snowflake can ride on either Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. The fact that they are ANSI-sql compliant and have an effective means of offloading data makes them portable and easy to sell to teams … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Sprague Director in Information Technology at Hamilton College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Snowflake 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, … Incentivized Helpful? Rounak Verma Data Analyst in Product Management at Raymour and Flanigan (Retail, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Snowflake I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system … Incentivized Helpful? Darren Mihalic Business Development Manager at Torqx Capital Partners (Venture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees) Chose Snowflake Snowflake has won the match because it is giving an excellent performance with its efficient features and reliable results. This is a totally secure program for our precious and important data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Our initial data warehousing solution was Treasure Data. We had issues with the costly pricing model, which would be exhorbitant if we want to hold our data in memory and query using Presto. As a result, some heavy lifting was done in Hive (managed by Treasure Data); … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Snowflake beats these other products in every category it was rated against Incentivized Helpful? Brian Bickell Data Practice Director in Engineering at InterWorks (Information Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Snowflake In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Redshift compute and storage can be scaled up/down together (though they added some features recently, they don't quite add up). I haven't tried Avalanche or Firebolt but would love to in the near future, due to their pedigree or revolutionary billing methods. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake - Cost was the main aspect on the decision. - Performance was in par or better compared to other tools in the market. - Snowflake in my opinion stacks better than other tools I have used in the past. Incentivized Helpful? Sudarshan Kothari Lead Analyst in Engineering at iQuanti, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Snowflake Accommodates future data types such as JSON and XML. Scalability is another advantage. Pay per use is beneficial for organizations like yours. Direct connectors with AWS help us to go with it. No limit on user creation and clone data not eating up extra disk space are a few … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Since we switch from Amazon Redshift to Snowflake, we found Snowflake is much better than redshift in many ways, including the data integrate and data pull. However, comparing directly pull data from Amazon S3, Snowflake is quite slow in terms of data pull speed and the more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Compared to Amazon Redshift, Snowflake is slightly easier and faster to achieve ROI but based on the user's perspective, the two tools have very little difference since both are leveraging SQL to pull data from AWS S3. Snowflake is also working with Microsoft Azure but it is … Incentivized Helpful? Duncan Hernandez Product Owner, Business Intelligence in Product Management at Answer Financial Inc. (Insurance, 201-500 employees) Chose Snowflake Our issue with Redshift was that it was very expensive. On top of that, queries were still slow and if we used more of Redshift's memory, then it would have cost even more. Snowflake is not cheap, but less costly for us. Plus, the performance was much better. Also, we got to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Snowflake Snowflake is a lot faster, feels more lightweight, and is overall easier for our BI team to manage and grant warehouse accesses. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Snowflake
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (19 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (8 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	8.0 (1 ratings)