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Comparison

Amazon Redshift vs Databricks

No clear leader: Databricks (59.8) and Amazon Redshift (55.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Amazon Redshift full profile →Databricks full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Redshift55
Databricks60
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Redshift55 / 100medium · 73%
Databricks60 / 100low · 48%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Model
Amazon Redshiftfreemium
Databrickscommercial
Price level
Amazon Redshiftlow
Databrickslow
Transparent
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon Redshift7
Databricks6
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Fedramp
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks–
Gdpr
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks–
Hipaa
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks–
Pci
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks–
Reliability
Status page
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
Amazon RedshiftManaged cloud
DatabricksManaged cloud
Architecture
Architecture
Amazon RedshiftSeparated storage/compute
DatabricksSeparated storage/compute
Compute model
Amazon RedshiftClusters
DatabricksServerless
Query
SQL dialect
Amazon RedshiftVendor-specific
DatabricksVendor-specific
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks-
Interoperability
Table-format support
Amazon RedshiftIceberg, Parquet
DatabricksDelta, Iceberg
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Amazon RedshiftAutomatic
DatabricksAutomatic
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
Amazon RedshiftFunctional
DatabricksFirst-class
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon RedshiftProprietary
DatabricksProprietary

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Redshift

A cloud-based data warehouse available in provisioned and serverless deployment models, supporting SQL analytics across data warehouses and data lakes. Redshift integrates with SageMaker for AI workloads and connects to S3 and third-party data sources via zero-ETL integrations.

Independently observed

Databricks

Databricks is a unified data, analytics, and AI platform for enterprises that combines data warehousing, machine learning, and AI agent capabilities through its lakehouse architecture and serverless Postgres offering (Lakebase).

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Redshift

from $0.54/moHybridFree tier90-day trial

Provisioned from $0.543/hour on-demand or discounted reserved rates; Serverless from $1.50/hour per-second billing. Free $300 credit for 90 days on new Serverless accounts.

  • Provisioned On-Demand$0.54/hr
    • Flexible scaling
    • Pause and resume
    • Node type selection
    • Elastic Resize
  • Provisioned Reserved Instances-
    • Significant discounts over on-demand
    • Steady-state workloads
    • Cost predictability
  • Serverless$1.50 per hour
    • Automatic capacity scaling
    • No idle charges
    • Seconds-based billing
    • Automatic shutdown
  • Serverless Reservations-
    • Up to 45% savings on Serverless compute
    • Cross-account sharing
    • AWS payer account management
as of verify ↗

Databricks

from $0.07/moUsage-basedFree tier

Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing from $0.069 / DBU or CU per second. Committed Use Contracts available for volume discounts. Free tier available.

  • Data EngineeringFrom $0.15 / DBU per second
    • Orchestrate data processing
    • Build streaming and batch pipelines
    • Ingest data from multiple sources
  • Data WarehousingFrom $0.22 / DBU per second
    • SQL analytics
    • BI reporting
    • Available in Classic and Serverless compute
  • Interactive WorkloadsFrom $0.40 / DBU per second
    • Data science workloads
    • Build custom applications
    • Security and governance
  • Operational DatabaseFrom $0.069 / CU per second
    • Postgres database
    • Data and feature serving
  • Artificial IntelligenceFrom $0.07 / DBU per second
    • GenAI applications
    • Model Serving
    • AI Functions
    • Model Training
  • GenieFree
    • Natural language Q&A
    • AI Coding Assistant
    • Enterprise Knowledge access
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓
CLI
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Redshift✓
Databricks✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Amazon Redshift

7 total
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Apache Iceberg
  • Apache Parquet
  • Streaming services
  • Operational databases
Independently observed

Databricks

6 total
  • Teams
  • Slack
  • Confluence
  • Power Platform
  • Copilot Studio
  • Zerobus
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.