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Fast and efficient data warehouse tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to set up and use
- Easy to scale with virtual warehouses
- Storage and compute resources are separated
- Supports structured and semi-structured data such as JSON and Avro
- Easy to write queries as it follows the SQL dialect
- Easy to scale with virtual warehouses
- Storage and compute resources are separated
- Supports structured and semi-structured data such as JSON and Avro
- Easy to write queries as it follows the SQL dialect
What do you dislike about the product?
- No support for local development testing, hard to implement unit tests to validate application functionality that integrates with snowflake
- Switching warehouses is confusing
- SQL editor should support auto-complete and highlight features
- Compilation times for complex queries are high; analysts need to have some basic idea of partitioning data.
- Switching warehouses is confusing
- SQL editor should support auto-complete and highlight features
- Compilation times for complex queries are high; analysts need to have some basic idea of partitioning data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Snowflake as our data warehouse. Data is loaded to snowflake as part of scheduled ETL process. Data Analysts connect to snowflake using BI tool (Looker) for anlysis and building reports.
Snowflake Review
What do you like best about the product?
Snowflake has a very clean UI, and it is simple to use. After about a week of playing around, I understood how most of the functionality worked in the tool which saved me so much time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest issue I ran into so far is that Snowflake doesn't have the capabilty to automatically refresh data in a maternalized view, so the table I created can't be refreshed unless it is a manual process or set up outside of Snowflake.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We now have a warehouse that centralizes all of our data, which we never had before. This is great for security reasons, as we all as organization.
Great SQL alternative but sometimes not user-friendly
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you only pay for what you use and it makes it easier for people starting their own businesses to have a reliable database without having to buy and pay for a server.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not very user-friendly. It's hard to find table names and key words (like no autocorrect options). I also don't like not being able to use keyboard shortcuts like ctr+e and ctrl+H
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Faster querying and ease to get data since the amount of data increased tremendously in my workplace and using sql server made things simply unmanageable. So a cloud-based solution was a great solution
I would like give it to 10 but it's only for fully cloud based enterprises. So I give it 8.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked its unique architecture, and also about security.
What do you dislike about the product?
I disliked not supporting hybrid. Because our customer only need hybrid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In order to solve big data that RDBMS can't handle properly.
About to use snowflake
What do you like best about the product?
The most exciting part for me is to use this new thing and get more experienced on it
What do you dislike about the product?
For now after reading some articles, there is nothing that i dislike!
But sure I'll share my thoughts with you after getting deeper.
But sure I'll share my thoughts with you after getting deeper.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manage the huge amount of data
I Have Used Snowflake in Data Quality Assurance, Data Migration and ETL Testing
What do you like best about the product?
Using and Working with Snowflake is Like Cake Walk if You have Some Knowledge on Databases and SQL/Oracle. Snowflake Provides an Intensive Set of Connector APIs Such as Spark connector, Python connector, etc., and Javascript Language-Based Stored Procedure Support. Snowflake is a Virtual Data Warehouse So You Don't Need to Worry about Managing things Physically or Hectically. Performance of Query Execution is Incredible even for larger Datasets.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Only Thing I Dislike about Snowflake Data Warehouse is Inability of Inferring Schema of Data Files Reading from Stage Area Such as Reading CSV, Json, Parquet, ORC etc from S3.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When I Worked On Data Quality Framework, the Client was required to Execute Custom SQL Queries for Creating Aggregated Datasets or Dataframes either for S3 Data Files or Snowflake Tables using Snowflake Compute and Triggering all the System through AWS Step Function and AWS Lambda, By this way we Saved the Cost of AWS EMR and Also Reduced the Time Taken to Access or Operate Large Datasets(Size>4GB).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If You are in Business or Work of Data Analysis, Data Science, and Data Warehousing, Quickly go for it Don't Even Think Twice.
I have worked for a retail company and used a snowflake to get a required data using a SQL query.
What do you like best about the product?
The way data are stored, and the output is displayed.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is hard to recover and use the deleted data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem I solved using a snowflake is getting the required data from a warehouse and using it to create a report.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is an excellent tool for managing data and used for creating a report.
Reliable, handles big data fast, like the new
What do you like best about the product?
Lots of functions, flexible SQL, easy to use interface, I like the new visualization tools. I don't talk to customer service, but teams seem to think They're very responsive. They're becoming our default database in the company. Admin has good access to query history.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Documentation for functions is sometimes worded confusingly and does not provide a lot of examples. Incredibly tough to upload CSV files into tables, have to use SE files through AWS, very few straightforward ways to go about it locally within a snowflake.
Sometimes active queries suddenly disappear.
Need dev/admin permissions to check historical info such as previously run queries.
Sometimes active queries suddenly disappear.
Need dev/admin permissions to check historical info such as previously run queries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data analytics and applied data science, product analytics, business analytics, deep dives into big data, bug finding.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Store your queries elsewhere if you plan on reusing. Visualizations still leave some things to be desired. Make sure you know who admin permissions to access history in case something gets lost in the mix since it'll be hard to recover otherwise has.
It would be great if snowflake as external query engine have better performance
What do you like best about the product?
Easy interface, hassle free data ingestion from cloud storage, better warehouse performance
What do you dislike about the product?
Query on external data on cloud is slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy data ingestion near real time, heavy aggregation query on cross tables, and for reporting data.
Good training but more insights needed. It might be because of very short course duration
What do you like best about the product?
Architecture explanation was most helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
More insights and use cases missing. Customer cases demonstration will be really helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data migration
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