Amazon Redshift vs. Snowflake Comparison

What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data in data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes. Business Intelligence tools and SQL clients can connect to Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is provided by Amazon on a cloud infrastructure. Pricing starts at $ 0.25 per hour on a small scale. Additional costs can be calculated on the website using the price calculator.

What is Snowflake?

Snowflake is a cloud data platform. Snowflake creates a central, controlled, and queryable source for data, including JSON and XML files, with cost-efficient storage capacities. Semi-structured data can be directly queried with SQL and tools for business intelligence and machine learning. Snowflake offers low-cost cloud storage with 2 to 3 times compression.

Snowflake also provides native support for geospatial data and analysis. The stored data is dynamically masked and tokenized. Also, Snowflake is SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA FedRAMP, etc. certified. Snowflake can be used free of charge for 30 days. Individual prices can be requested on the website.