Snowflake
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I led the migration of enterprise healthcare data off Palantir onto Snowflake”
“We switched to Snowflake, saved money, got better performance, and had a simpler setup.”
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“In Snowflake, I use scheduled tasks that call stored procedures.”
Caveats and dissent
“Since Snowflake and Databricks reject equality delete files”
“locking themselves into something like Snowflake”
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“I was tired of setting up additional read replicas and Snowflake for our BI teams”
“Snowflake charges $3 per compute hour”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
Snowflake | Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Manager | Menlo Park, CA | Warsaw, Poland | London, UK | ONSITE I’m part of Snowflake’s Applied AI / Forward Deployed Engineering team, and we’re hiring for multiple roles on the team. We work directly with strategic customers to design, build, deploy, and improve production AI systems on Snowflake. That includes LLM applications, RAG and agentic workflows, evaluation fr
“At Snowflake we use Snowflake to do the apply work.”
“production AI systems on Snowflake”
“I’m part of Snowflake’s Applied AI / Forward Deployed Engineering team”
“the fix implemented/deployed by our security team”
Threads where it came up
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Data: snowflake.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Snowflake's cache is a cost saver”
“Since Snowflake and Databricks reject equality delete files”
“locking themselves into something like Snowflake”
“I led the migration of enterprise healthcare data off Palantir onto Snowflake”
“built planning/data pipelines with Snowflake”
“But mostly Snowflake or AWS.”
“basically a clone of Snowflake's semantic views but for DuckDB”
“we do work with Snowflake (and Databricks and other warehouses) as well”
“We switched to Snowflake, saved money, got better performance, and had a simpler setup.”
“using Python, SQL, Snowflake/dbt/Airflow, and Anaplan”
“companies scaling on Kubernetes and Snowflake”
“I was tired of setting up additional read replicas and Snowflake for our BI teams”
“warehouse-native infrastructure (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)”
Apart from working within the Snowflake ecosystem, you can also manage FalkorDB outside of Snowflake and still have your data up to date, using the CDC tool we've created: https://github.com/FalkorDB/DM-SQL-to-FalkorDB
“Data: Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, DuckDB, Tuva Data Model”
“It worked well, but Snowflake was only usable for offline analytics”
“I occasionally use things like APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT in Snowflake”
“experience in dbt/snowflake/postgres”
“Snowflake charges $3 per compute hour”
“Snowflake is starting down this direction”
“Exasol (and SingleStore, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc) are more focused on enterprise BI”
“Tech Stack: Rails, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Elasticsearch, DBT, Snowflake”
“Snowflake”
“can only write SQL in Snowflake”
I usually use snowflake as a last resort, and even that's not consistently working right now. However I've seen people recommend running Conduit[1] to friends overseas, which is an easy-to-use Psiphon proxy node. Psiphon is a popular circumvention tool here so that could be helpful. [1] https://conduit.psiphon.ca/
“Compared to Snowflake and Databricks”
“are the people relying on https://snowflake.torproject.org/ and adding bandwidth there actually makes a difference?”
“Snowflake doesn't have adaptive indexes, and its performance would be significantly degraded as data grows”
“In Snowflake, I use scheduled tasks that call stored procedures.”
“all of ours logs to Datadog, Sentry, Snowflake”
“Snowflake has their own sql engine and is more of a serverless option.”
“we use Snowflake”