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Amazon Redshift vs Coalesce.io comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift
Ranking in Data Warehouse
7th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (8th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (8th)
Coalesce.io
Ranking in Data Warehouse
16th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
3.3
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 4.5%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Coalesce.io is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Redshift4.5%
Coalesce.io1.1%
Other94.4%
Data Warehouse
 

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.
Kunal Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Intelligence Developer at VodafoneZiggo
Standardized ELT templates have accelerated delivery while API and UI flexibility still need improvement
The best features Coalesce.io offers in my experience include lineage, which is the most important from the Ziggo perspective, and the APIs, which I would rank as the second most valuable. The third feature is the bulk edit option, so we don't have to do repetitive tasks again and again. The new SQL feature they are introducing, where you can dump your SQL and have your table or view created without manually creating columns, is also valuable. These are the four features I appreciate the most, and the fifth one would be the recently implemented GUI change where you can put a node in a spotlight to see the upstream and downstream based on what you need, setting up the depth and those settings. Coalesce.io has positively impacted my organization by reducing our development time and the time to market from around 15 days to a couple of days. This is the biggest impact we have experienced, and we are able to enforce a standardized way of working among developers, eliminating silos or customized solutions that developers create for themselves. If a satellite is loaded by ten different processes, all ten different processes generate the same type of SQL, making it easier to debug later if someone new joins the team. Additionally, since it is a SaaS solution, there is no need to maintain any software or install anything on laptops, which has helped us at VodafoneZiggo. Another feature is the API feature and the CLI command tool, which aid us significantly in moving from PowerCenter to Coalesce, enabling the migration of mappings from PowerCenter to Coalesce in bulk.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's scalable because it's on the cloud."
"Redshift's Excel features are handy. Redshift spectrum allows you to directly query the data on an Excel sheet. Now, SQL Server also allows this, but Redshift has many more features."
"Redshift COPY command, because much of my work involved helping customers migrate large amounts of data into Redshift."
"The most valuable feature of Redshift is its cluster."
"The product offers good support for the data lake."
"We imported 20 million rows of sales facts in less than 15 seconds, and the content was query-able immediately."
"Amazon Redshift's performance optimization and scalability are quite helpful, providing functionalities such as scaling up and down."
"The initial setup of this solution is straightforward."
"Coalesce.io has positively impacted my organization by being a tool that can be leveraged by a non-technical team, especially business analysts who are working on bringing data from different sources."
"Coalesce.io has positively impacted my organization by reducing our development time and the time to market from around 15 days to a couple of days."
"Coalesce.io has positively impacted my organization by making development faster and keeping the logic clearer, so we do not have to see 1000-2000 lines of code every time."
"The best features that Coalesce.io offers include a very rigid ETL framework that ensures all developers use the same pattern."
"Coalesce.io has helped me develop projects faster, as it is easy to implement and maintain, reducing execution time by thirty to forty percent, while also helping me design a modular approach."
"Using Coalesce.io, I have reduced my transformation process and eliminated macros that were previously used, creating reusable programs that are helpful for other projects and models, which has reduced code dependencies between teams and saved approximately three hundred to four hundred dollars per day in processing costs."
"Coalesce.io has impacted our organization positively by providing a low-code approach, supporting different sources so we don't need to write custom code, and offering a collaborative tool suitable for teams with a large number of developers."
"Coalesce.io has positively impacted my organization by improving workflow, productivity, and business outcomes."
 

Cons

"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."
"If we are in a rush to deliver something for a client and encountered these issue, we are really screwed."
"The managing updates, deletes, and role-level change performance is very low. For example, while you are doing inserts, updates, deletes, and amalgamates, the performance is very, very poor."
"Compatibility with other products, for example, Microsoft and Google, is a bit difficult because each one of them wants to be isolated with their solutions."
"Amazon Redshift could improve the user interface support."
"Pricing is one of the concerns that I have because if you compare Snowflake with Redshift, it provides some of the same services, but at a much cheaper rate."
"For people who struggle with IAM or role-based management, the setup isn't easy."
"Amazon should provide more cloud-native tools that can integrate with Redshift like Microsoft's development tools for Azure."
"Coalesce.io could be improved from the stage layer perspective."
"Coalesce.io could improve in their AI features that they have enabled now."
"At the moment, the only improvement I see is deeper support for AI agents to support the developer's job."
"I do not find anything particularly helpful or something that stands out yet."
"I believe the editing should be a bit easier, or there should be a bulk edit option where a column can be added in one go in multiple places."
"Coalesce.io is compatible with Snowflake only, so it must be configured with other platforms such as Databricks and BigQuery, which is a limitation and a drawback."
"For that specific use case, I was able to accomplish what I was trying to do during the demo, but we encountered certain scenarios such as post-hooks, update statements, edge cases, or particular SQL query modifications and custom cases that could not be implemented through the GUI interface."
"Regarding the accuracy and reliability of Coalesce.io's output, I am not entirely sure it is reliable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing a seven."
"In comparison to the price of similar solutions, Redshift's cost is the lowest."
"BI is sold to our customer base as a part of the initial sales bundle. A customer may elect to opt for a white labeled site for an up-charge."
"Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive."
"It's pay per use. You can have multiple models."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"It is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
30%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise29
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
 

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, ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coalesce.io?
Licensing costs are based on the region. We are using the US region, so charges are determined accordingly.
What needs improvement with Coalesce.io?
Coalesce.io can be improved by making it handle more edge cases and providing better documentation. When I was initially working and trying to find information, there was not much available on thei...
What is your primary use case for Coalesce.io?
My main use case for Coalesce.io was with a healthcare provider client whose team was not particularly tech savvy, so we wanted something easy to use. I was debating between two options: Coalesce.i...
 

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Sample Customers

Liberty Mutual Insurance, 4Cite Marketing, BrandVerity, DNA Plc, Sirocco Systems, Gainsight, Blue 449
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