Snowflake Computing Software and Solutions

Snowflake Computing Questions

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

Sep 10 2024

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

Sep 10 2024

What needs improvement with Snowflake?

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Snowflake.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

Sep 10 2024

What is your primary use case for Snowflake?

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

Sep 10 2024

What advice do you have for others considering Snowflake?

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Snowflake, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Data SleekSnowflake is probably the best data warehouse solution on the market. AWS is… more »

Jesus CarrollSnowFlake is useful to merge all kinds of data, no bother if you have… more »

SreenivasanRamanujamAdvice 1 : If the organization has more than 60 to 70% of data science or ML use… more »

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

Sep 03 2024

What advice do you have for others considering Snowflake Analytics?

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Snowflake Analytics, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

Sep 03 2024

What is your primary use case for Snowflake Analytics?

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Miriam Tover

Senior Delivery Ops Manager

PeerSpot

Sep 03 2024

What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Miriam Tover

Senior Delivery Ops Manager

PeerSpot

Sep 03 2024

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake Analytics?

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

What do you like most about Snowflake Analytics?

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Snowflake Analytics?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Julia Miller

PeerSpot

What do you like most about Snowflake?

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Snowflake?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

SreenivasanRamanujamData sharing is a good feature. It is a majorly used feature. The elastic… more »

NitinKumarMany features 1) Separate warehouse and the control user gets on it. 2) Auto… more »

Rob Kellaway

Head of Data Delivery at Hastings Insurance Services Limited

Which is better for Snowflake integration, Matillion ETL or Azure Data Factory (ADF) when hosted on Azure?

Hi peers, I work at an Insurance company with 5000+ employees and I'm interested in the collective view here.  Does anyone have a view on how Matillion ETL functionality compares to ADF for Snowflake integration, when ADF and Snowflake are hosted on Azure? Note: Azure hosting ...

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Jan Lisowiec

Technical Program Manager at Natzka

Which solution has better performance: Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, or Firebolt?

Hello peers,

I am a Technical Program Manager at a small computer software company.

Which solution performs better: Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, or Firebolt? Which solution do you prefer an why?

Thank you for your help.

Works at NAVER Corp

Which solution do you prefer: Oracle Exadata or Snowflake?

Hello community,

I work for a large tech services company.

I am currently researching data warehouse solutions. Which solution do you prefer: Oracle Exadata or Snowflake? Which solution performs better and has more cost savings?

Thank you for your help.

Richard WinterThis is a large and complex question and depends on the use case and scale. Each… more »

Ariful Mondal

Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH

What are the key reasons for choosing Snowflake as a data lake over other data lake solutions?

Hi,  It seems that Snowflake is becoming very popular nowadays. I have done some training and live sessions by Snowflake.  I would like to hear your opinion about the main key parameters we should look for when choosing Snowflake over other cloud-based data lakes, such as costs, ea...

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Steve SarsfieldI wrote a white paper on this that you can download here:https://bit.ly/3bRTCqp… more »

MarkSmithWe did a PoC with Snowflake. scale up and down works as advertised. Be careful… more »

Jay AllenSnowflake is a columnar stored database. It is not a “data lake.”

Ariful Mondal

Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH

What are the key reasons for choosing Snowflake as a data lake over other data lake solutions?

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Steve SarsfieldI wrote a white paper on this that you can download here:https://bit.ly/3bRTCqp… more »

MarkSmithWe did a PoC with Snowflake. scale up and down works as advertised. Be careful… more »

Jay AllenSnowflake is a columnar stored database. It is not a “data lake.”

NitinKumar

Director of Enginnering at Sigmoid

How to achieve sub-second query performance with JSON data (~1B rows) in Snowflake?

Hello,

I am using Snowflake for JSON data and we have almost 700 million JSON rows.

Is it possible to achieve a sub-second performance in Snowflake? I am OK to cluster and flatten the JSON data into structured tables if necessary.

Thank you.

Netanya Carmi

Content Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Which is better - Azure Synapse Analytics or Snowflake?

And why?

NitinKumarIf you are dealing with semi-structured data like json Snowflake has great… more »

Miriam Tover

Senior Delivery Ops Manager

PeerSpot

What is the biggest difference between Apache Hadoop and Snowflake?

One of the most popular comparisons on IT Central Station is Apache Hadoop vs Snowflake. People like you are trying to decide which one is best for their company. Can you help them out? What is the biggest difference between Apache Hadoop and Snowflake? Which of these two solutions would you reco...

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it_user1108338Interactive querying as a consumption pattern is something Snowflake handles… more »

it_user1274238Apache Hadoop is for data lake use cases. But getting data out of Hadoop for… more »

Padmanesh NC

Big Data Solution Architect - Spatial Data Specialist at SCIERA, INC

What is the major difference between AWS Redshift and Snowflake?

What is the major difference between AWS Redshift and Snowflake in terms of performance, simplicity, scalability, stability and pricing?

Mineaki MotohashiAlthough I verified it only in a specific case, I performed performance… more »

Padmanesh NCInteresting Snowflake has a fundamentally different architecture in that… more »