Skip to main content
TrustRadius: an HG Insights Company
Snowflake

Snowflake

Overview

What is Snowflake?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed,…

Read more

Learn from top reviewers

Fastest Cloud-Base Data Storage in the world.

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 29, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Snowflake daily, where all of our data is stored. It is straightforward to use and gives you a lot of flexibility to import your tables for custom analysis; it also pro...
Continue reading
Verified user
Analyst
Snowflake2 years of experience

Snowflake a great data warehousing tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 17, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We work as a team setting up the Snowflake environment for our clients, which includes setting up production, development, and testing environments, setting up the role-based ...
Continue reading
Verified user
Engineer
Snowflake3 years of experience

Your data team will love Snowflake, just be sure to manage cost

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 13, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our company has grown organically and by acquisition, and as a result we have a series of disparate software products with around 800 databases across different clouds and dif...
Continue reading
David Williams
Manager - Information Technology
Head of Engineering
Damstra Technology
Snowflake2 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Performs well

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 18, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
we use it to find information on orders and supply chain issues. we also use it for various AI/ML and data science projects.
Continue reading
Matt Lee
Analyst - Other
Sr Data Analyst
Apple
Snowflake4 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Snowflake - a scalable, secure and cost effective cloud based data storage platform.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 13, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
At Numerator, Snowflake is used as a cloud based data storage platform and it also provides robust data warehousing solutions. The amount of data at Numerator is at a very lar...
Continue reading
Sahil Khan
Analyst - Product Management
Data Analyst
Numerator
Snowflake3 years of experience
Log in with LinkedIn to see content from your network
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
Snowflake

Snowflake

N/A
Unavailable

What is Snowflake?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.snowflake.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

10 people also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift

$0.24
per GB per month
What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a hosted data warehouse solution, from Amazon Web Services.

Return to navigation

Product Demos

Snowflake Must Know New Objects | Chapter-8 | Snowflake Hands-on Tutorial

YouTube

Webinar: Snowflake on Azure: Modern Data Analytics

YouTube

Snowfall Projector Light

YouTube

Snowsight - Snowflake Modern Web UI | Chapter-5 | Snowflake Hands-on Tutorial

YouTube

Snowflake Database/Schema/Table & Container Hierarchy | Chapter-7 | Snowflake Hands-on Tutorial

YouTube

DesignsBySiCK.com Wash Away Fibrous Free Standing Lace FSL Snowflake demo

YouTube
View more demos
Return to navigation

Product Details

What is Snowflake?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.

Snowflake Data Marketplace gives data scientists, business intelligence and analytics professionals, and everyone who desires data-driven decision-making access to live and ready-to-query data from your ecosystem of business partners and customers, and from potentially thousands of data providers and data service providers.

Snowflake Screenshots

Screenshot of Snowflake Installation

Snowflake Video

Product Introduction

Snowflake Competitors

Snowflake Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.

Amazon Web Services and Databricks Data Intelligence Platform are common alternatives for Snowflake.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Snowflake are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives

Compare with

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift

Compare
Google BigQuery

Google BigQuery

Compare
MongoDB

MongoDB

Compare
SingleStore

SingleStore

Compare
SAP Datasphere

SAP Datasphere

Compare
Presto

Presto

Compare
Teradata Vantage

Teradata Vantage

Compare
Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics

Compare
HCL Actian Data Platform

HCL Actian Data Platform

Compare
SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud

Compare
MySQL Heatwave

MySQL Heatwave

Compare
Benchling

Benchling

Compare
Cyral

Cyral

Compare
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(395)

Reviews

(1-2 of 2)

Unleash the power of data with Snowflake - the cloud data platform built for the future

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 09, 2023
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Snowflake
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have used Snowflake to ingest, store and process data from the customer devices telemetry data for various insights. Ease of creating a pipeline from multiple sources without worrying about the amount of data and scalability of compute for different departments helped us a faster go to market solution. Continuous discovery is the core of our team means fail fast with minimum cost, with Snowflake we are able to do quick proof of concept and align project goals to the organization strategy
Pros
  • Ingestion from different cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Ability to store data in multiple formats including structured and unstructured
  • Compute is dynamic. Ability to chose a compute based on cost and performance.
Cons
  • Data visualization capability has improved though have lot of areas of improvement
  • Data governance and catalog capabilities
Likelihood to Recommend
Data Security while ingestion and during storage, ability to support multiple data formats, dynamic compute to support varied use cases, low cost of maintenance and operations.
Most Important Features
  • Data Security
  • Cost of Ownership
  • Scalability
Return on Investment
  • Ability to expedite continuous discovery
  • Instant Infra availability with minimum planning
  • Ability to monitor the cost and scope of optimization
Alternatives Considered
Cloud -Native architecture, Separation of Storage and Compute provides flexibility, Scalable Compute, Cost and Data Security
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
1000
Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations
Support Headcount Required
100
Data Engineers, Application Team, Functional Analysts
Business Processes Supported
  • Data Storage
  • Data Insights
  • Data Analytics
Innovative Uses
  • Ability to Integrate with multiple cloud platforms and support Hybrid Architecture
  • Collaborate with Customer and Partners
Future Planned Uses
  • Create and Support Data Mesh
  • Ingest and process Streaming data
Likelihood to Renew
10
No known issues with the product
Products Replaced
Yes
We replaced Big Data - Hadoop with Snowflake because of its SQL native and can support both Structure and Unstructured Data. We struggled with Hadoop on the scalability, performance and architecture
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
Cloud-Native architecture and support for SQL which aligns to our transaction data in Oracle. Compute is dynamic and scalable allows to control and optimize the cost
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Not a part of Implementation team

Snowflake - a very cost effective JSON querying tool.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
August 06, 2018
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Snowflake
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Snowflake is currently being used to ingest daily JSON files exported from an analytics package into S3. We use Snowflake for Ad Hoc Queries, aggregating daily KPIs and pushing that data into a SQL Server, as well as creating Tableau extracts for our dashboards. We have also started using it for deeper Machine Learning types of analysis - such as creating predictive models.
Pros
  • Process Engine control - we can stop/pause/start engines for various tasks.
  • Processing speed is adequate unless there are many users on at the same time.
  • Web interface is easy and intuitive, like the fact that your queries are automatically saved in tabs.
Cons
  • Very limited amount of tabs - saved queries, which requires us to store the code somewhere else and re-use existing queries.
  • Performance can really be a problem if there are many users on the system at the same time.
  • SnowFlake support sometimes can be hard to reach.
Likelihood to Recommend
Snowflake is great in quick process and ad hoc queries of JSON files (with built-in JSON support). Snowflake would not be the best alternative for sitting on top of Tableau Dashboards - mostly because of the engine being idle and filtering might take additional time. The fact that you only pay for engine time you actually use makes Snowflake is very cost-effective.
Return on Investment
  • We are able to organize all the various data sources into one place and run Ad hoc queries against them.
  • Snowflake being very cost effective is definitely saving us $ over their competitors.
  • We are able to track KPIs across various games and compare them to each other, thus knowing where to invest our marketing dollars.
Alternatives Considered
Snowflake is cheaper, but TreasureData has a better interface and much more functionality. Also, TreasureData is able to process a greater number of records more efficiently. TreasureData has the ability to run both Hive and Presto. Also, TreasureData has native APIs for many various products, as well as native SDKs. We are currently using both of them for various things.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
10
We have several DBAs from Business Intelligence using Snowflake primarily to ensure the data in SnowFlake has been correctly loaded from our S3 buckets. We have several Data Analysts who run ad hoc queries, do in-depth investigations and create dashboards to be be published on Tableau. We also have several Product Managers who sometimes writer their own queries and use Tableau dashboards data analysts have created for them.
Support Headcount Required
7
Three Database Administrations from the Business Intelligence department, four Data Analysts from the Data Analytics department. We load the data into Snowlfake every morning from our S3 buckets, so it is important for database administrators to ensure the data gets loaded into SnowFlake correctly. Our data analysts run ad hoc queries, do spot checks and create dashboards to be used by our Product Managers.
Business Processes Supported
  • Ad Hoc Analysis of various things that are going on in our games.
  • In-Depth model building to improve our users' experience.
  • Aggregating data and create dashboards to display our KPIs to management.
Innovative Uses
  • We've been able to leverage the cost of Snowflake to get better deals out of our other vendors.
  • Machine Learning model building.
  • In-Depth analytics investigation into performance of our games.
Future Planned Uses
  • Expand our portfolio of games that use SnowFlake.
  • Add data from other marketing sources into SnowFlake to integrate with gaming data.
  • Build a warehouse sitting on top of SnowFlake with aggregated data.
Likelihood to Renew
8
SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to.
Return to navigation