What is Snowflake?
Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Snowflake?
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- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Snowflake Reviews
Étienne D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2024
Snowflake is the best analytics database.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake has remarkable speed and ability to handle massive volumes of data. It manages concurrency in our tests better than other premium competitors, and the cloud-based technical architecture gives us significant advantages over other offerings, including the critical ability to segment usage patterns and scale reliably.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Snowflake is a great tool for connecting multiple data sources. It has a SQL-based approach that makes it easy to manage and query data lakes. Its cloud-native setup ensures everything works as it should. Therefore, even with large data workloads, we can rely on optimal performance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Inexperienced team members may find the user interface a little overwhelming at first.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Snowflake is a very fast and easy to maintain cloud-based storage solution. It provides the best infrastructure to store, manage, use and analyze data. It is ideal for companies that are growing at a really fast pace.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Neha B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2024
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Caring
Riddhi B.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2026
Handles Big Data Smoothly
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Snowflake from other similar products?
Snowflake stands out because it separates storage and compute, so you can scale each independently without affecting performance. It’s very easy to use and doesn’t require heavy infrastructure management. The platform also works seamlessly across multiple cloud providers, which gives flexibility. Overall, it handles large data workloads efficiently while staying simple for users.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like most is how simple it makes working with large data. I don’t have to worry about setup or maintenance, it just runs smoothly. It saves time and lets me focus on actual work instead of managing things.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I don’t like is that the cost can go up quickly if you’re not careful. Sometimes it’s hard to understand the billing. Also, a few things take time to learn at the start.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are thinking about using Snowflake, start small and understand how the pricing works. Keep an eye on usage so costs don’t increase unexpectedly. Learn the basics first, and then explore advanced features slowly. Once you get used to it, it becomes very easy to work with.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
