--- description: Review of Snowflake Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Snowflake | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Data Management Software](/directory/4230/data-management/software) > [Snowflake](/software/419926/snowflake) # Snowflake Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/419926/snowflake Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/419926/snowflake?page=2) > Snowflake is a data cloud platform for technology professionals and businesses in various industries, including financial services, government, education, healthcare, advertising, and others. It can help businesses unify, integrate, share, and analyze data and provide a seamless experience for their teams. Snowflake can support multiple public clouds, regardless of location, and can scale to any volume of data and number of users. Mobile apps are available for iOS and Android devices for on-the-go access. Snowflake supports many data workloads such as data warehousing, data engineering, data-intensive app development, and more. To simplify data exchange within a business ecosystem, the platform provides real-time access without the need for copying or moving data sets. Additionally, Snowflake includes built-in security features including data masking, end-to-end encryption, vulnerability reporting, plus others. Pricing is based on the volume of data stored on Snowflake. Support is available via an online knowledge community, documentation, and other resources. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 96 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 96 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Snowflake - **Location**: San Mateo, US - **Founded**: 2012 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$23.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Capacity storage pricing starts at $23/TB/month. On-demand storage pricing starts at $40/TB/month. Snowflake pricing is based on the volume of data stored and compute time of use. For more information, please contact Snowflake Inc. - **Target Audience**: 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: Dutch, English, French, Japanese, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Japan, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Compliance Management - Dashboard - Data Capture and Transfer - Data Connectors - Data Dictionary Management - Data Discovery - Data Integration - Data Management - Data Migration - Data Security - Data Storage Management - Data Synchronisation - Data Visualisation - Data Warehousing - ETL - Extract Transfer Load - High Volume Processing - In-Database Processing - Information Governance ## Integrations (20 total) - Alation - AtScale - Collibra - DataRobot - Dataiku - Domo - Fivetran - HVR - Immuta - Informatica Big Data - Matillion - Rivery - Salesforce Platform - Segment - Sisense ... and 5 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Data Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4230/data-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Data Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4230/data-management/software) - [Machine Learning Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4358/machine-learning/software) - [Data Governance Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4158/data-governance/software) - [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) - [Data Warehouse Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/3789/data-warehouse/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Thus far it does what I need it to do. ----- ### "The incredible power of a cloud data platform" — 5.0/5 > **David** | *29 March 2022* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The concept of Snowflake is so clever - mass amounts of micro-partitions of data, with the storage and compute separated. It is a smart product that enables so much functionality and capability. It is more than simply a database in the cloud, it is truly a feature-rich platform that offers a huge amount of functionality. I also very much like that role-based access is a fundamental part of it. Its data sharing features are terrific too. > > **Cons**: Some things are a little tricky to figure out, like row-level policies the first time you do it, or data masking. There are no triggers. Scheduled tasks are a little limited. Stored procedures are not as simple as I'd like. > > We use Snowflake to aggregate hundreds and hundreds of disparate databases across many different clouds and platforms into one single data warehouse allowing us, for the first time, to give customers visibility of all their data across all our products. ----- ### "A great example of a data warehouse solution" — 3.0/5 > **Nathan** | *11 November 2022* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I love how straightforward and performant the solution was > > **Cons**: Data visualisation was a little lacking, meaning you had to tether to a system like Google Data Studio or Sigma/Tableau to make sense of the data ----- ### "A fantastic data warehouse solution that solved all our problems" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *5 May 2022* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Snowflake is exteremely stable and easy to setup. I was able to turn it on and have a reliable Data Warehouse that didn't require me having a lot of cloud knowledge to administrate. The database administration through the UI is intuitive and the Roles dynamic helps with implementing good data governance and compliance pratics inside the company. Snowflake also offers user security options out of the box, which was a huge improvement for us. The doccumentation is very well written and SnowSQL offest a lot of useful functions. The main improvement on this front was how Snowflake treats JSON, which helped us a lot. > > **Cons**: If your revenue is not on US dollars, Snowflake is an expensive product, there is no way around that. It is indeed a very good service that charges accordingly. We are using the smallest cluster possible and it was necessary to do some convincing inside the company to approve it for our budget. That being said, the smallest cluster we are using is more than enough for our needs and will be for a long time, so it will take a long time for this cost to increase again, but it was a pretty big budget increase initially. > > I have an amazing experience using Snowflake. It is better than out previous Data Warehouse solution in everything I can think of (besides pricing). We are very satisfied with, and I feel very confident on having it as the backend of all our data needs. It is also important to notice that we had a very pleasent experience with Snowflake's sales and account managers: they were very helpful and not pushy at all. ----- ### "Friendly Cloud Data Warehousing" — 5.0/5 > **Joan** | *11 April 2023* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Snowflake is easy to use and clear. Maybe the hardest part is to set up Roles and Policies. Overall, I think it is the easiest data warehousing in the market and works very well. > > **Cons**: It is kind of expensive and sometimes I feel I am getting "over billed". With this I mean that some operations take extra computing time that is not really needed or there are hidden costs difficult to track. To know how much money are you spending is difficult and overall I feel like Snowflake does not want you to track billing that much. > > Very good and reliable tool. I am very satisfied. ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/419926/snowflake?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/419926/snowflake) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data