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Cloud data warehouses
13 tools compared: how each is priced, where it runs, and what to consider instead.
| Tool | Pricing model | Free tier | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Redshift AWS's managed cloud data warehouse, available as provisioned clusters or an auto-scaling serverless option. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Azure Synapse Analytics Microsoft's unified analytics service combining a dedicated SQL data warehouse, serverless SQL, and Apache Spark pools. | Usage-based | No | No |
| Exasol In-memory, massively parallel analytics database available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted software. | Quote only | Yes | No |
| Firebolt Cloud analytics database built for low-latency, high-concurrency queries with per-second usage billing. | Usage-based | Yes | Yes |
| Google BigQuery Serverless cloud data warehouse billed by data scanned or by slot capacity, with no infrastructure to provision. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Greenplum Open-source, massively parallel PostgreSQL-based data warehouse for large-scale analytical SQL. | Open source + paid | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Fabric Microsoft's SaaS analytics platform unifying warehousing, lakehouse, pipelines, Power BI, and real-time analytics on OneLake. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| OpenText Vertica Columnar MPP analytics database, now owned by OpenText, deployable on-premises, in Kubernetes, or across major clouds. | Quote only | Yes | No |
| Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Oracle's self-tuning, self-patching cloud data warehouse built on Oracle Database with elastic OCPU and storage scaling. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| SAP Datasphere SAP's cloud data warehousing and data-fabric service that virtualizes and harmonizes data across SAP and non-SAP sources. | Quote only | No | No |
| SingleStore Distributed SQL database combining row and columnar storage for hybrid transactional/analytical (HTAP) workloads. | Usage-based | Yes | No |
| Snowflake Cloud-native data warehouse that separates storage and compute and bills usage in per-second credits. | Usage-based | No | No |
| Teradata VantageCloud Teradata's cloud-delivered evolution of its enterprise MPP data warehouse, unified under a single Teradata Unit pricing currency. | Quote only | No | No |