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The new generation Big Data Platform
What do you like best about the product?
The performance, its support for semi-structured data and the Acid back-bone. It is like having Hadoop with Transactions and fine role-base security. Data Sharing is also new to the database world. We can now share any data with our Clients without additional burden.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice to be able to self-manage the fail-safe. For instance tables from the fail-safe should be removed explicitely so no storage is vasted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big Data Healthcare Analytics
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Lean how to monitor and handle the costs. You need to do that actively as the easy to use and its flexibility can increase costs quite rapidly.
Performant, Secure, and Scalable Cloud-based Data Warehouse
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is easy to set up and use. It provides a lot of flexibility in terms of performance and cost efficiency by its ability to scale clusters up and down in an instant. Snowflake's best feature though, in my opinion, has to be "time travel". Time travel is a concept of deriving data from any given point in time. Snowflake also has a "share" functionality, which allows us to share data across the company with ease. Snowflake's capability to clone has also helped us in our testing efforts.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to be said here. Snowflake was one of the most flexible and scalable warehouse options we found in the market when researching for a cloud-based data warehouse.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake allowed us to centralize most (if not all) of our data sources into a theoretical single space, which made reporting to our clients easier. Snowflake allows us to easily join data across various data sources within one single space.
Delivers on everything promised
What do you like best about the product?
The snapshot capabilities. The ability to take snapshots quickly so that we can work with a copy of the data
What do you dislike about the product?
The security model can be a bit tedious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Snowflake is helping us to scale our data business in a cost efficient manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need the ability to scale up and down quickly, then this is your solution.
lead data engineer
What do you like best about the product?
first: the fast compute and unlimited storage . second: the connection to AWS S3. third the snow piple.
What do you dislike about the product?
Query GUI, it will be nice to have all the features like the generic query analyzer , example: DB VISUAL
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big data for analytics
Connection to AWS S3
Connection to AWS S3
Recommendations to others considering the product:
this is the product to go for big data solution
Snowflake has been amazing for our company
What do you like best about the product?
Probably my favorite thing is how we can spin up the size of Snowflake for our ETL loads and derived tables builds throughout the day.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think what we struggle the most with is applying security roles to all schemas, databases and tables. Snowflake does have robust security but it does take some time to set up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to get our important reports out much sooner each day than when we are on Redshift.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do a POC to see just how much better Snowflake is if you are struggling with your current database.
Great onboarding and service
What do you like best about the product?
Very fast onboarding - very proactive Sales/Technical account assistance
What do you dislike about the product?
Somewhat lack of technical tools to load data in Snowflake. Community is still somewhat young
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analyzing large amounts of consumption SVOD data. Able to run really quick queries and build large data backends for our Tableau reports
Best Data Warehouse out there
What do you like best about the product?
It is super easy for my work as a Data Engineer to connect to Snowflake via Spark and streamline our ETL pipeline. It is ANSI SQL-compliant, so it is not much new to learn for anyone who has a SQL background.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it supported Dynamic SQL. And, while it is convenient that UDFs can be written in JavaScript, I would love to see the addition of more languages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to store and easily query more data than ever before.
Excellent platform
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, scalability and excellent support
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I really dislike about it, great platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big data analytics to service the lifesciences market
Most groundbreaking data warehosue + data lake platform money can buy
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake completely changes the data warehousing paradigm. All of the implicit weaknesses that are baked into the core architecture of every major DW vendor in the last 30 years are gone. Endless CPU, endless storage, endless RAM. You will never get a spool space or tempdb error. You can store XML, JSON, and flat files natively and join them into your relational table queries. Snowflake automatically scales horizontally as necessary to complete the workload as quickly as possible.
It has oustanding NoSQL support, but it's also the fastest and most flexible relational database you can get at any price from any vendor. Including the ones that cost 7-8 figures per year.
It has oustanding NoSQL support, but it's also the fastest and most flexible relational database you can get at any price from any vendor. Including the ones that cost 7-8 figures per year.
What do you dislike about the product?
Partner support (ETL tools, BI tools) isn't as broad as more established databases. However, this is changing quickly. Most of the modern players already have connectors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of our customers was on the verge of making an investment that was deep into the 6 (or 7) figures to make a major upgrade to an existing data warehouse platform. We did a bake off with each vendor, and Showflake was the only game-changer.
Every operation is on average 20x-25x faster than their legacy infrastructure, and 5-10x faster than every other database in the bunch. And the cost basis is roughly the same as their legacy DW infrastructure, which is 5x less than it would have been with any other vendor.
Every operation is on average 20x-25x faster than their legacy infrastructure, and 5-10x faster than every other database in the bunch. And the cost basis is roughly the same as their legacy DW infrastructure, which is 5x less than it would have been with any other vendor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Hire an expert to help with the move. It has ANSI SQL support and uses Oracle SQL syntax, but many of the design considerations can be quite different than any other database.
A powerful SQL and data aggregation suite
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and simple platform really make data analysis a breeze
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited usage with only sql, and no ability to use python in line with sql in the snowflake environment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All data acquisition is done through snowflake and the benefits of a cloud system promote remote usage
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get adapted to this new system to better your work flows and speed up your data analytics processes
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