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Amazon Redshift vs Firebolt comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (6th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (9th)
Firebolt
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 7.0%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Firebolt is 2.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Redshift7.0%
Firebolt2.4%
Other90.6%
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Featured Reviews

Hemanthreddy Vakiti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Optimized restaurant analytics has driven faster insights and streamlined daily reporting
Amazon Redshift offers massive parallel processing capability, allowing it to handle millions of records, along with integration with other AWS features such as S3 and QuickSight. The column-level storage supports high performance and easy data retrieval compared to other tools. The integration with S3 has helped my team immensely since S3 is our starting source, and the direct integration with Amazon Redshift simplifies the transformation and loading process. Columnar storage has benefited our performance significantly, allowing us to extract specific rows from tables with years of data much faster than other tools with row-level storage. Amazon Redshift has positively impacted our organization by significantly improving query performance and speed. Features such as easy integration with S3 allow us to process millions of records efficiently, ultimately saving us nearly one hour per day for our project.
Md Saquib Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineering Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real-time dashboards have delivered millisecond insights and now drive faster decisions
From my point of view, Firebolt's best features are separate indexing, multi-tag querying, sub-second queries, decoupled compute, and price-performance optimization. Of those features, I rely the most on sparse indexing in my daily work because it scans minimal data blocks, directly speeding up queries while reducing cloud costs. One small detail I appreciate about Firebolt is that its aggregation index stands out by pre-computing repetitive metrics, ensuring instant, sub-second dashboard rendering. Regarding Firebolt's AI capabilities, I think it enforces enterprise-grade governance and security through granular role-based control and compliance frameworks, access governance, data protection, and enterprise compliance. Regarding Firebolt's AI capabilities, I find that it ensures high AI output reliability by serving as an ultra-low latency and deterministic SQL engine for Retrieval-Augmented Generations (RAG), and its sub-second sparse indexing queries and execution ground external AI models in accurate relational data without hallucinating raw calculations.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Redshift Spectrum is the most valuable feature."
"Setup is easy. It's a fast solution with machine learning features, good integration, and a good API."
"It's very easy to migrate from other databases to Redshift. There are migration tools dedicated for this purpose, enabling migration from other databases like MS SQL directly to Redshift. The majority of the scripts will be automatically transposed."
"The solution is scalable. It handles different loads very well."
"This service can merge and integrate well with all databases."
"It allows you write complex queries and perform row by row processes."
"A feature I find most valuable in Amazon Redshift is that it's fast."
"Data Science and Machine Learning are valuable features."
"Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"Firebolt has positively impacted my organization by reducing query latency to milliseconds, lowering cloud compute costs, and accelerating executive decision-making."
 

Cons

"The product must provide new indexes that support special data structures or data types like TEXT."
"The product must become a bit more serverless."
"We recently moved from the DC2 cluster to the RA3 cluster, which is a different node type and we are finding some issues with the RA3 cluster regarding connection and processing. There is room for improvement in this area. We are in talks with AWS regarding the connection issues."
"The only minor issue I faced was that it took a bit longer than expected to change the cluster to have more space or storage."
"What would make Amazon Redshift better is improvising on the pricing structure. For example, Acronis provides backups in cybersecurity, yet the pricing is a bit lesser than Amazon Redshift."
"Running parallel queries results in poor performance and this needs to be improved."
"In the solution, user-based access is quite hard. In general, certain permissions are difficult to manage."
"Pricing needs improvement as the solution is expensive."
"Beyond performance tuning, connector depth is a key area for improvement for Firebolt, including ad-hoc query flexibility, as queries without primary and aggregation indexes incur higher compute scans, making unpredictable ad-hoc workloads slower than structured dashboard queries."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"One of my customers went with Google Big Query over Redshift because it was significantly cheaper for their project."
"The product is cheap considering what it provides; I rate it five out of five for affordability."
"The solution has very competitive pricing."
"The best part about this solution is the cost."
"I have heard complaints about the solution’s pricing, and thus I rate it as a five."
"The part that I like best is that you only pay for what you are using."
"For Amazon Redshift, we pay around INR 60,000 annually. The cost factor also depends on the number of existing customers."
"It's not very pricey compared to other tools. I would rate the price as 5 out of 10."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise30
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Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?
My experience with pricing and setup cost is satisfactory, as we have been loyal clients of Amazon since the beginning of our organization. However, I am not aware of the exact costs associated wit...
What needs improvement with Amazon Redshift?
Amazon Redshift could improve by enhancing its UI to be more user-friendly for non-technical users and by offering better cost management, as similar tools tend to be less expensive. Additionally, ...
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