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Amazon Redshift vs YugabyteDB Aeon comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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 Database Management Systems (DBMS)
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (7th), Cloud Data Warehouse (8th)
YugabyteDB Aeon
Ranking in Database Management Systems (DBMS)
15th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Database Management Systems (DBMS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 4.1%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of YugabyteDB Aeon is 0.2%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Management Systems (DBMS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Redshift4.1%
YugabyteDB Aeon0.2%
Other95.7%
Database Management Systems (DBMS)
 

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.
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Software Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Building RAG workflows with simple cluster setup has improved my data exploration
The documentation for YugabyteDB Aeon needs to be improved. It does not come across as beginner-friendly documentation. If someone from a different field were to use YugabyteDB Aeon, they would find it difficult to get started. Other than that, it is really good; the system is good, and the architecture and features are really good. I do not know how large the YugabyteDB Aeon community is because I have not heard of it or come across any community posts. I do not think any other features need to be improved. An important issue I faced while using YugabyteDB Aeon was that it needs to follow a sequence like one, two, three, four, and so on, but YugabyteDB Aeon does not follow this pattern in a certain aspect.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We found AWS Redshift to be the leader in capability and provides an ecosystem of related services from AWS, many of which are free."
"If the analyst knows SQL, which is comfortable and easy to use to go between all of these tool stacks, I think it's reliable. It's a secure and reliable data warehouse."
"Easy to build out our snowflake design and load data."
"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."
"The seamless connection and good scalability on the cloud are valuable features of Amazon Redshift."
"Redshift is a major service of Amazon and is very scalable. It enables faster recalculations and data management, helping to retrieve data quickly."
"The scalability is very good, and it is one of the best features of this solution."
"Redshift has an advantage when it comes to administration, making it easier to manage and collaborate."
"Other than that, it is really good; the system is good, and the architecture and features are really good."
"YugabyteDB Aeon has positively impacted my organization by reducing our downtime and effort when the server goes down since we only need to restart it and ensure all utilities are up, and with YugabyteDB Aeon, we do not need to go through that restarting process; we just need to route the traffic to different nodes and distributed clusters in our cloud-native environment."
"The best features YugabyteDB Aeon offers are that it is a fully managed YugabyteDB service that allows running a YugabyteDB cluster in a multi-cloud environment."
 

Cons

"It would be nice if it was a bit cheaper to retain data long-term."
"For people who struggle with IAM or role-based management, the setup isn't easy."
"This solution lacks integration with non-AWS sources."
"In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic."
"Integrating database security/access rights with AWS IAM would be great."
"Improvement in the immediate response and the process of getting into a call could be helpful."
"The product must provide new indexes that support special data structures or data types like TEXT."
"There are physically too many pipelines for a company of this size to maintain. For a data scientist, it's very difficult to learn the data in all of these different environments."
"Regarding needed improvements, I think the UI part could be more user interactive."
"The documentation for YugabyteDB Aeon needs to be improved. It does not come across as beginner-friendly documentation."
"In my experience, YugabyteDB Aeon is not as stable as the customer requires."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is available at a mid-range price compared to other vendors."
"I have heard complaints about the solution’s pricing, and thus I rate it as a five."
"It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The product is quite expensive."
"The best part about this solution is the cost."
"It's not very pricey compared to other tools. I would rate the price as 5 out of 10."
"It's pay per use. You can have multiple models."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
36%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Transportation Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise29
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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, ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for YugabyteDB Aeon?
I do not know about the experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for YugabyteDB Aeon because it will be managed by the account department.
What needs improvement with YugabyteDB Aeon?
I cannot tell you how YugabyteDB Aeon can be improved because I do not have extensive expertise or experience with it, but it is definitely a great tool to explore and enhance. Regarding needed imp...
What is your primary use case for YugabyteDB Aeon?
My main use case for YugabyteDB Aeon revolves around problems we face with traditional databases like MSSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL because YugabyteDB Aeon gives us the flexibility when we need mult...
 

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Sample Customers

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