AWS REDSHIFT VS SNOWFLAKE FULL

Redshift reduces I/O through columnar storage, data compression, and massively parallel processing (MPP). Inside each compute node, it is partitioned into slices. The client applications interact directly only with the leader node. A cluster is composed of one or more compute nodes. The core infrastructure component of AWS Redshift data warehouse is a cluster. AWS RedshiftĪWS Redshift’s fully-managed Data Warehouse solution is based on PostgreSQL but beyond just PostgreSQL.

You can also review Snowflake’s architecture and key features from Snowflake’s website. You can review my course of Redshift, also Redshift architecture overview, and BigQuery architecture overview videos from my channel for the details. In this post, I will just summarize three cloud data warehouse solutions’ architectures. At the time of this post, AWS Redshift is still the leading data warehouse cloud solution in the market but Snowflake has grown significantly faster than the other two in the past 12 months.

Snowflake is a Database as a Service(SaaS) solution. Both AWS and GCP are Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports querying using ANSI SQL. Snowflake has run on AWS S3 since 2014, on Microsoft Azure since 2018, and on the Google Cloud Platform since 2019.

AWS REDSHIFT VS SNOWFLAKE FULL

An initial preview beta was released in November 2012 and a full release was made available on February 15, 2013. AWS Redshift is based on an older version of PostgreSQL 8.0.2 with the changes to that version. It leverages Google’s Borg the large-scale cluster management system and Dremel the execution engine.

GCP BigQuery was announced in May 2010 and made generally available in November 2011. Three popular cloud data warehouse solutions can run analytic queries against petabytes to exabytes of data with highly-scalability, cost-effectiveness, and security. Let’s compare 3 popular cloud data warehouse solutions – AWS Redshift vs. Snowflake has recently become more and more popular. I compared cloud data warehouse solutions AWS Redshift and GCP BigQuery last time.

Aws redshift vs snowflake