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Snowflake AI Data Cloud
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Has good stability and processes the data efficiently
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable feature is path application.
What needs improvement?
They should improve the performance of the solution's transaction application.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have 20-30 solution users in our organization.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's customer service is good.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup was very straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price for the solution's license depends on the use cases.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a nine. It efficiently processes the data and gets reports as well.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Snowflake is awesome tool
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is very effective in writing the code to pull the data required for analysis. It's quite user friendly, simple and effective. The flow and various options are easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime it's slow and could not handle the load of the system. Could be more efficient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I pull the data from the very big data base and it helps me in making the efficient analysis.
Good scalability and has a simple query process
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to build the pipelines in stream sets, including data source, data warehouse, and destination endpoints.
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable features are storage, run time, scalability, and minimum query time compared to other vendors.
What needs improvement?
The solution's stability needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for seven or eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Recently, I encountered an issue with the solution's data warehouse. The resource monitor had exceeded its quota. I rate its stability as an eight.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution's scalability as a nine.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We use Hive and Hadoop as well. Snowflake is more stable and scalable.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is more straightforward to use than the other IDBMS tools. It has a simple query process. Its computing time is less as well. One can easily have access to it. I rate it as a nine.
Optimizes costs, works with various clouds, and great dashboards
What is our primary use case?
Data warehousing is typically a rich guys' toy. Large enterprises are only able to leverage data warehouses for data analytics purposes. We wanted to change that and wanted to build a data warehouse template model for businesses across industries.
If Snowflake was not around, we would have used Google's Big Query or Amazon's Redshift, or a MYSQL/Postgres database in a Windows VM (virtual machine). However, Snowflake made it a lot easier for us with loads of features such as encryption of data in motion and at rest, masking policies, time travel (to correct data load issues), controlled access based on roles, data sharing, third-party data from marketplaces, etc.
How has it helped my organization?
It helped us to build MVP (minimum viable product) for our idea of building a data warehouse model for small businesses.
About ten years ago, force.com from salesforce.com offered a similar platform for us to build data warehouses. However, our staff with a data engineering background found it easier to build the data warehouse in Snowflake, with the easy-to-use SQL interface and RBAC models (role-based access control). The platform saved us money as it automatically shuts down the compute engines after about five minutes of idle time. Per second billing (above the first minute) is great.
What is most valuable?
In my view, cost optimization for the computing power required by the ETL jobs, reports, and dashboards is the most valuable feature. Especially for startups, this helps us to keep cost spending within control without having to worry about manually shutting down the server when not used.
As a Google partner, we like to leverage GCP (Google Cloud Platform). Snowflake supports GCP, AWS & Azure platforms. This works just fine for us. Encryption of data with multiple keys for both data in transit and data at rest gives us enough confidence to use snowflake for our customer 360 solutions.
What needs improvement?
Currently, we use Snowsight only to monitor the usage of the Snowflake environment by our users. However, if Snowsight can be improved, we can host our BI (business intelligence) environment also within Snowflake. In our case, to provide basic reports and dashboards, we started to use Tableau, Power BI, Looker, and Qliksense, depending on our customer preference.
We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model. If Snowflake could guide us with some easy-to-use integration (similar to DBT integration), that would be great.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used the solution since 2020.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stable
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalable
How are customer service and support?
Support can be enabled in the Snowflake UI.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
In the past, we used Google Cloud SQL. However, Snowflake offered cost optimization among the many other useful features. They also introduced app building on top of the data hosted.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is not difficult. Google Search will lead us to articles that can guide us on the setup of users, roles, warehouses, and access controls.
What about the implementation team?
We did the initial setup on our own, and it was not difficult.
What was our ROI?
We constantly monitor the usage with grafana dashboards to keep the ROI growing and to assist/ alert users about any wastage.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Many interesting features are available only in the enterprise edition. Check out the differences when you are evaluating the product: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/...
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We considered MySQL and Google Big Query. We're also happy with Google Big Query.
What other advice do I have?
Snowflake is growing with newer features and capabilities. But not much success with Stream lit app. Big query + app sheet is an alternative that we're considering.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Google
Guided use, simplicity and easy to keep on track with your projects
What do you like best about the product?
The databases are easily organized. You can search them on your own. The features allow you to keep an easy track of your projects and because of that you´re able to recicle code and separate your queries according to the project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when the query fails you are not told very specifically where the error is being generated. A FAQ section should be included or a section with tips to get started with SF
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Working with relational databases without having to dowload them and work on them in R or Python. Thanks to snowflake I´m able to get just the data I need. It simplifies my job because some of the communications I send extract the most recent data from SF instead of hurrying to upload data.
Enjoy using snowflake but wish it was better
What do you like best about the product?
I like the overall interface of snowflake. I like the layout and it's easy to use. I love that it auto populates certain syntax words. I also love the query search feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like when someone shares a sheet with you , you aren't allowed to move it to another folder or stop sharing it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using it to query data
Excellent program for data warehouse
What do you like best about the product?
It's very easy to use and the platform for SQL queries has a very good design.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the queries can suffer delay when you run it and you have to wait more than 1 hour if there are many users using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed to create queries that generates tables from the different databases in the program.
Great cloud-based data warehouse to store data and integrate with Analytics tools.
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing I like about it is its compatibility with standard SQL making it very easy to work with data for data analysis and data operation. I also like its scalability and ability to customize.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although Snowflake is a great tool and serves its purpose in the best possible way but going through multiple data frames and databases exploration can get a little tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake is really helpful in bringing largescale data together in a Data Warehouse. It helps manage this large amount of data. It also helps integrate this data with various data analysis and processing tools.
An user friendly way to access data
What do you like best about the product?
Easy-to-use interface to access and analyze data. Easy to to add/export data
What do you dislike about the product?
Snowsight is a less powerful view than the original console
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake allows us to create a centralized (edit/view) access to large amounts of data for analysts of all levels. It increases the amount of information I am able to consider when making decisions, and therefore builds my confidence in the decision.
Snowflake Cloud Review
What do you like best about the product?
It's multi domain data platform and milti cluster shared database concepts.snowflake ETL tool provides ease to access source system and dump the structured and semi structured data.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far not much drawbacks observed but better to have some connectors to connect with other commercial products like IBM Watson,IBM infosphere MDM etc
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using big data and snowflake helps us to processing, loading, cleaning data.
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