We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and Firebolt based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."The most valuable features of Amazon Redshift are that its fast and efficient. We have lots of TBs of data and it's very fast."
"The processing of data is very fast."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Redshift is its ability to handle really large sets of data."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution is fully embedded in the AWS stack."
"Changing from local servers to the cloud is very easy. It's so nice not to have to worry about physical servers."
"The stability of Amazon Redshift is good."
"I found the Amazon Redshift computing services easy. I found the computing instances the most incredible in the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability, as it grows according to our needs."
"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."
"Should be made available across zones, like other Multi-AZ solutions."
"Migrating data from other data sources can be challenging when you are working with multibyte character sets."
"The solution could improve in handling more data formats and more native support for RDF."
"The product could be improved by making it more flexible."
"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 should provide more cloud-native tools that can integrate with Redshift like Microsoft's development tools for Azure."
"The OLAP slide and dice features need to be improved."
"Query compilation time needs a lot of improvement for cases where you are generating queries dynamically."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 58 reviews while Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while Firebolt is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". Amazon Redshift is most compared with AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse.
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