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    Automotive

Lead Data Engineer

  • February 26, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
first: the fast compute and unlimited storage. second: the connection to AWS S3. third: the snow pipeline.
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
Recommendations to others considering the product:
this is the product to choose for a big data solution


    Matt K.

Snowflake has been amazing for our company

  • February 26, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

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.


    Education Management

Great onboarding and service

  • February 26, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

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


    Aaron S.

Best Data Warehouse out there

  • February 26, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

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.


    Hospital & Health Care

Excellent platform

  • February 26, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

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


    Eric A.

Most groundbreaking data warehosue + data lake platform money can buy

  • January 28, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

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.
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.
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.


    Benjamin Chase W.

A powerful SQL and data aggregation suite

  • January 27, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

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


    Computer Software

Elastically scale your Data Warehouse in the cloud the way it should be!

  • November 28, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Ability to dynamically allocate CPU resources for the largest workloads and reduce them when not needed for cost efficiency.
What do you dislike about the product?
Costs are sometimes a bit unpredictable...need to keep a watch on it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Near real-time analytics at scale for IoT end users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
test drive it and make sure you keep a watch on the cpu meter.


    Financial Services

Snowflake allows for simple access to data integrating with AWS and downstream tools easily

  • November 27, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Web browser is great to use and easy to pull up
What do you dislike about the product?
downloading data from web ui could be easier
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL database access in cloud


    Mark P.

Easy, fast and cost efficient

  • November 27, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake is super easy to get up and running. The auto-suspend functionality is saving us thousands of dollars per month over our previous data warehouse solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice if Snowflake offered service in the us-east-2 (ohio)region where the rest of our app is located.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for a new data store to power analytics and customer reporting needs. We previously used a mix of MySQL and RedShift, which were more expensive and took more expertise to optimize.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try, it is very easy to get your data into and get value out of it. The Snowflake experts have been awesome partners.