Scalable cloud data warehouse with fair pricing
December 17, 2024

Scalable cloud data warehouse with fair pricing

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Snowflake

We use Snowflake as our central data warehouse where we collect raw data from various different source systems and combine, harmonize, and transform them into reporting-ready formats. This helps us to better understand behavioral patterns amongst our customers, better understand the financials, the usage of our products, Go To Market strategies etc.

Pros

  • Scalability and Performance
  • Auto-Suspend and Auto-Resume
  • Ingestion of Real-Time data via Snowpipe

Cons

  • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
  • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
  • Measure and increase growth
  • Measure and reduce churn
  • Measure and improve campaign effectiveness
  • Calculate Customer Health Scores used to prevent churn
It is very easy to use. All the technical administration / optimization (e.g. indexing, partitioning) is done automatically in the background or not needed at all, so you can focus on creating value without having to deal much with admin tasks. The new UI with auto-completion SQL editor etc. is very easy to use and saves time.
Snowflake has an attractive pricing model with auto-suspend and auto-resume and pay per use. AWS Redshift requires higher administrative efforts to maintain and scale the platform whereas with Snowflake those admin tasks are not needed or automatically taken care of.

Do you think Snowflake delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Snowflake's feature set?

Yes

Did Snowflake live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Snowflake go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Snowflake again?

Yes

Very well suited for small and large scenarios. Very well suited for structured and semi-structured (e.g. JSON) data. Maybe less ideal for photo / video materials as there are cheaper storage alternatives.

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