The Snowflake features I find most beneficial for data analysis are primarily related to analytics, particularly their features like materialized views and queues, which are especially useful for dashboarding purposes.
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 13, 2024
The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering.
Database administrator terdata at Genpact - Headstrong
May 29, 2022
The advanced features like time travel, zero copy cloning and scalability have been most useful. Snowflake requires zero maintenance for Data Warehousing on the cloud system.
What we found most valuable in Snowflake Analytics are its attributes that are very convenient for business use such as data sharing, cloning, time travel, and fail-safe. It's a good product all in all.
The scheduling of jobs requires improvement, particularly in terms of the user interface which currently lacks certain features found in comparable platforms.
A room for improvement in Snowflake Analytics is Spark, particularly its connector for Spark.
An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is built-in analytics.