Snowflake
Our verdict
Who it's for
Data teams that want an elastic cloud data warehouse with easy data sharing and a marketplace.
Who should look elsewhere
Small teams with light workloads wanting flat, predictable pricing.
Pros
- +Elastic compute/storage separation and data sharing
- +Marketplace and broad ecosystem
- +Free trial; API and connectors
Cons
- −Consumption pricing requires active cost control
- −Can be overkill for small datasets
- −Performance tuning (warehouses) needs expertise
Key features
- ✓Data warehouse
- ✓Data lake
- ✓Data sharing
- ✓Marketplace
- ✓ML features
- ✓Zero-copy cloning
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $2 | per credit | — |
| Enterprise | $3 | per credit | — |
| Business Critical | $4 | per credit | — |
Capabilities
- Sso Saml
- —
- Rbac
- Yes
- Mobile App
- —
- Webhooks
- —
- Data Export
- —
- Database Model
- —
- Managed Hosting
- Yes
- Serverless
- —
- Self Hosting
- Yes
- Sql Support
- Yes