5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Snowflake first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We switched to Snowflake, saved money, got better performance, and had a simpler setup.”
endorse · production · nijave · 2026-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it solves some very real problems for us, but it's also a pain to iterate on that stuff.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · physicles · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Add that to the hideous cost, and the worlds most aggressive sales/account management team and I've less than zero desire to ever deal with them again.”
regret · production · FridgeSeal · 2022-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all of ours logs to Datadog, Sentry, Snowflake, and more.”
neutral · production · dukeyukey · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated from Redshift to Snowflake and rebuilt our row-level security model to only query scoped data.”
neutral · production · matthewhefferon · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?