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Amazon Redshift vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

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 Cloud Data Warehouse
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 7.4%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is 4.8%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Sriram-Natesan - PeerSpot reviewer
The ability to create a lot of views or materialized views is beneficial
Improvement in the immediate response and the process of getting into a call could be helpful. We have had to wait for at least twenty-four hours to get a call and then wait for a couple more hours for a solution. Improved connectivity to different BI tools and already published connectors for major tools in AWS could enhance the service.
Kwajah Mohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex
We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Easy to build out our snowflake design and load data."
"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."
"It allows for the storage of huge amounts of data."
"The processing of data is very fast."
"This service can merge and integrate well with all databases."
"Amazon Redshift is very fast. It has really good response times. It's very user-friendly."
"One advantage is that if you already have an Oracle Database, it easily integrates with that."
"The solution integrates well with Power BI."
"It is an extremely scalable solution since you can dynamically change the resources as some other cloud solutions."
"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."
"The solution has a self-backup, so you don't need a DBA (database administrator) to do a backup."
"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."
"The analytics have been very good. We've found them to be quite useful."
"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."
 

Cons

"I would like to improve the pricing and the simplicity of using this solution."
"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."
"This solution lacks integration with non-AWS sources."
"Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics."
"We are using third-party tools to integrate Amazon Redshift, they should create their own interface on their own for it to be easily connected on the AWS itself."
"The solution could improve in handling more data formats and more native support for RDF."
"The OLAP slide and dice features need to be improved."
"Infinite storage is available in Snowflake and is not available in Redshift."
"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."
"Ease of connectivity could be improved."
"I would like to see Application Express and Oracle R Enterprise fully supported, and I would like to see Oracle Data Mining supported as a front end."
"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."
"One of the major problem is creating custom tablespace. The ADB serverless option doesn't support custom tablespace creation, which could cause issues during on-premise database migration that requires specifically named tablespace. There should be an option to create customized tablespace."
"An improvement for us would be the inclusion of support for an internal IP, so we could use it directly with the VCN in Oracle Cloud."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. It was not easy."
"My main suggestion for Oracle is the configuration and key values that come for JSON files. When we create a table, especially if you see in our RedShift or some other stuff, if I create a table on top of a JSON file with multiple array columns or superset columns, those column values create some difficulty in Oracle."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Amazon Redshift is reasonable because it depends on the usage that you use and for DWH for the long term."
"The cost will depend on how you set up your warehouse and what kind of data you store."
"It's pay per use. You can have multiple models."
"Redshift is very cost effective for a cloud based solution if you need to scale it a lot. For smaller data sizes, I would think about using other products."
"The solution has very competitive pricing."
"The product is quite expensive."
"One of my customers went with Google Big Query over Redshift because it was significantly cheaper for their project."
"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."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."
"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."
"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."
"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."
"The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products...You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward Oracle."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
48%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Educational Organization
31%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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 do you like most about Amazon Redshift?
The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good.
What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.
What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.
 

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