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PROS

Users appreciate Snowflake's rapid scalability and separation of storage and compute, allowing for efficient use of resources.
The performance and speed of data queries in Snowflake are highly valued, outperforming many traditional on-premise systems.
Snowflake's data sharing and data exchange capabilities simplify collaboration and integration with other systems.
Time Travel and Zero Copy Cloning features offer significant benefits for data recovery and management.
Snowflake's ability to handle structured and unstructured data efficiently makes it a comprehensive data warehousing choice.

CONS

Snowpipe auto-ingest should be fully automatic and not a manual task for users.
Pricing is too high and should be improved for better affordability compared to competitors.
Migration from other data warehouses to Snowflake is difficult and should be more seamless and easy.
Portability and support for SQL-based stored procedures are issues that need addressing for better compatibility with existing SQL ecosystems.
Improving the ETL functionality would benefit users by enhancing data ingestion capabilities and reducing reliance on third-party tools.
 

Snowflake Pros review quotes

SunilPatil1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asset Builder at Genpact - Headstrong
Oct 27, 2025
We utilize Time Travel with Snowflake because this is a very useful feature; everyone finds it crucial because in conventional data platforms, it's very difficult to handle these kinds of things.
reviewer2403603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 13, 2025
Snowflake has evolved significantly over time; initially, they started with scalability, but more recently, they have introduced streaming capabilities, real-time and dynamic tables, along with various connectors.
AmolDhormare - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Integration Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 8, 2026
Snowflake has positively impacted us by making everything cloud-native, significantly reducing the systems and application running process.
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Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 6, 2026
Since we are using Snowflake, it has improved the speed and reliability of our analytics processes, which is key to any data engineering or data warehousing project.
Andrejs Nikitins - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at Mastercard
May 7, 2026
From my experience, Snowflake is the most stable, user-friendly, and simply the nicest tool that I have been working with, and I have had experience working with many databases and different solutions.
Snehasish Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
Dec 26, 2024
Snowflake is a data lake on the cloud where all processing happens in memory, resulting in very fast query responses.
reviewer1438647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 16, 2025
The technical support from Snowflake is very good, nice, and efficient.
Mikalai Surta - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Big Data Department at IBA Group
Jul 9, 2025
The reduced infrastructure management is the big difference compared to on-prem warehousing with Snowflake Data Cloud.
VivekSingh 1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Architect at Boston Scientific
Sep 11, 2024
In addition to the database, Snowflake also provides ingestion capabilities.
reviewer1614864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Center Head - Goa Regional Delivery Center. at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 10, 2024
I don't think it is difficult to maintain.
 

Snowflake Cons review quotes

SunilPatil1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asset Builder at Genpact - Headstrong
Oct 27, 2025
Currently there isn't end-to-end or B2B sharing of data.
reviewer2403603 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Nov 13, 2025
If more connectors were brought in and more visibility features were added, particularly around cost tracking in the FinOps area, it would be beneficial.
AmolDhormare - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Integration Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 8, 2026
Snowflake is very good overall, but it could improve documentation for supporting different structures.
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Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 6, 2026
One main area for improvement in Snowflake is cost visibility and optimization; while it's flexible and scalable, costs can increase quickly if warehouses are left running unnecessarily or workloads are not monitored carefully, raising the costs of the tool.
Andrejs Nikitins - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at Mastercard
May 7, 2026
Snowflake can be improved in terms of its recent switch to a new user interface, which feels less intuitive compared to the old one.
Snehasish Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Leader at eTCaaS
Dec 26, 2024
Cost reduction is one area I would like Snowflake to improve. The product is not very cheap, and a reduction in costs would be appreciated.
reviewer1438647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 16, 2025
The billing doubles with size increase, but processing does not necessarily speed up accordingly.
Mikalai Surta - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Big Data Department at IBA Group
Jul 9, 2025
Pricing is quite high for Snowflake Data Cloud, which is an area that could be improved.
VivekSingh 1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Architect at Boston Scientific
Sep 11, 2024
The addition of more AI capabilities in Snowflake would help us more.
reviewer1614864 - PeerSpot reviewer
Center Head - Goa Regional Delivery Center. at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 10, 2024
From an improvement perspective, Snowflake can evolve in terms of writing costly, expensive queries with less cost and try to see if pipeline development can be made a little easier.