Snowflake a great data warehousing tool.
January 17, 2025

Snowflake a great data warehousing tool.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Snowflake Data Marketplace

Overall Satisfaction with Snowflake

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 access control, and implementing masking policies. We create pipelines using tools like Azure Data Factory, airflow, and Matillion to bring clients' raw data into a Snowflake. Then, we create procedures and tasks on top of them to clean that data and transform the data for reporting purposes, and then we use the Snowflake consumption layer for all our reporting purposes and create reports out of it. We also use Snowsight for some of the Snowflake usage reports, such as cost monitoring and query monitoring. We have also made use of the dynamic table tables where we had a requirement to refresh the tables on an hourly basis so that we don't have to create multiple elements like task stream. The dynamic table can take care of everything.

Pros

  • Creating Procedures.
  • Python integration.
  • Snowsight for reports.
  • Data masking.
  • RBAC

Cons

  • Subquery.
  • Increased business agility.
  • improved internal efficiency.
  • Cost effective.
Snowflake's features and the languages it supports are really good. It offers a reporting feature called Snowsight, where you can make reports. Provide pay as per your need model by allowing you to increase or decrease the storage size whenever you need it, and also allow you to control the compute size.
Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can buy according to your needs. And the integration options with various tools like Sigma are add-ons.

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

Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.

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