Amazon Redshift vs Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
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| Figure | Amazon Redshift | Google BigQuery |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.54/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · Cloud Analytics Solutions | 8.3 (#6) | 5.8 (#26) |
| Spec score · Data Warehouse Software | 8.2 (#6) | 5.6 (#24) |
| Spec score · OLAP Software | 8.3 (#8) | 5.6 (#30) |
| Spec score · SQL Query Tools | 8.3 (#8) | 5.7 (#29) |
| Spec score · Columnar Databases | 8.3 (#7) | 5.5 (#26) |
| Spec score · OLAP Databases | 8.2 (#8) | 5.5 (#28) |
| Spec score · Analytical Data Store Software | 8.2 (#8) | 5.6 (#25) |
| Spec score · Analytics Databases | 8.3 (#9) | 5.6 (#28) |
| Spec score · Analytics Data | 8.3 (#9) | 5.6 (#29) |
Plans
Amazon Redshift
- Provisioned$0.54 a month
- Serverless$1.50 a month
- Provisioned on-demand$0.54 a month
- Redshift Serverless on-demand$1.50 a month
In their own words
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse for SQL analytics across data warehouses and data lakes. It offers provisioned and serverless deployments, with options AWS says can scale to petabytes and support thousands of concurrent users. Redshift runs read-only SQL queries on Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake tables, plus open file formats in Amazon S3. Zero-ETL integrations connect with Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and enterprise applications. Streaming ingestion connects with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka. Listed integrations include QuickSight, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, Jupyter Notebook, Informatica, dbt, MicroStrategy, and Looker. The Data API supports AWS SDK languages including Python, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and C++. Security includes encryption, row- and column-level controls, and dynamic masking. It is paid, has no free plan, offers a free trial, and starts at $0.54 per month for Provisioned or $1.50 per month for Serverless.
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.