SingleStore alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of SingleStore, shown against it.

SingleStore ClickHouse Cloud Firebolt Amazon Redshift
Vendor SingleStore, Inc. ClickHouse, Inc. Firebolt Analytics, Inc. Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Pricing model Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based
Free tier Yes No Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud
Open source No No Yes No
Best for Applications needing real-time analytics on live operational data alongside transactional workloads. Teams that want ClickHouse's performance without operating the database themselves. Teams needing sub-second, high-concurrency analytics for customer-facing applications. AWS-centric teams wanting a managed warehouse tightly integrated with the rest of the AWS data stack.
Pricing

Managed Standard and Enterprise plans are billed hourly per workspace with a free shared workspace tier and BYOC available on request; new signups get $500 in credits.

Shared (Free) Free
Standard (Managed) Starts at $0.99/hr
Enterprise (Managed) Starts at $1.49/hr

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Usage-based pricing across three tiers (Basic, Scale, Enterprise), calculated by an online calculator; Enterprise publishes example per-region compute and storage rates.

Basic Usage-based, via calculator
Scale Usage-based, via calculator
Enterprise From $0.39030/compute-unit-hour + $25.30/TB-month (AWS us-east-1 example)

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Compute billed per second with auto-stop/resume; storage billed per GB-month as pass-through object storage; new accounts get free trial credits.

Managed / BYOC Usage-based, per-second compute

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Provisioned clusters are billed hourly per node type; Redshift Serverless bills per RPU-hour with a per-second minimum; new Serverless users get trial credits and provisioned clusters offer a limited free-tier trial.

RA3 provisioned (example) $3.26/hr for 4x ra3.4xlarge
Redshift Serverless $0.375 per RPU-hour
Managed storage $0.024/GB-month
New Serverless users $300 trial credit

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Hybrid row and columnar storage (HTAP)
  • MySQL wire-protocol compatibility
  • Built-in vector search and full-text search
  • Automatic horizontal sharding across distributed nodes
  • Database branching for isolated dev/test copies
  • Read replicas for scaling query throughput
  • Managed (Helios), BYOC, and self-hosted deployment options
  • Fully managed provisioning and autoscaling
  • Storage-compute separation on object storage
  • Automatic backups and version upgrades
  • Multi-cloud availability (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Multi-AZ high availability on higher tiers
  • SAML SSO, HIPAA/PCI compliance on Enterprise
  • Managed Postgres-compatible instance pricing
  • Storage-compute separation with per-second billing
  • Auto-stop and auto-resume compute engines
  • Sparse and aggregating indexes for query acceleration
  • Bring-your-own-cloud deployment option
  • Semi-structured (JSON) data support
  • Standard SQL interface
  • Provisioned (RA3) or auto-scaling Serverless (RPU-based) deployment
  • Redshift Spectrum for querying S3 data lakes directly
  • Zero-ETL integrations from Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB
  • Concurrency scaling for bursty query workloads
  • Materialized views and automatic query result caching
  • Machine learning via Redshift ML (SageMaker integration)
  • Federated querying across other AWS databases

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