# Amazon Redshift vs Databricks

| Attribute | Amazon Redshift | Databricks |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 49.1 (63% (medium)) | 52.9 (47% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What is Amazon Redshift?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon Redshift offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.54 per hour. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"Is Amazon Redshift free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Amazon Redshift. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What platforms does Amazon Redshift support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon Redshift, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"Can Amazon Redshift be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Amazon Redshift, including Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Apache Iceberg, Apache Parquet, Streaming services and Operational databases. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"What does Amazon Redshift integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon Redshift. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon Redshift not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp","question":"What security certifications does Amazon Redshift have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Amazon Redshift is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","question":"Where is Amazon Redshift available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Databricks is a data lakehouse platform that merges data lake scalability with warehouse reliability and performance. It enables organizations to ingest, prepare, and analyze data while building AI applications with integrated governance and compliance. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/pricing","question":"What is Databricks?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Databricks offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.07. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://databricks.com","question":"Is Databricks free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Databricks supports the web and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/pricing","question":"What platforms does Databricks support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Databricks, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/creating-better-travel-experiences-all-confronting-airline-pricing","question":"Can Databricks be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Databricks, including Teams, Slack, Confluence, Power Platform, Copilot Studio and Zerobus. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/pricing","question":"What does Databricks integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Databricks is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/creating-better-travel-experiences-all-confronting-airline-pricing","question":"Where is Databricks available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A managed cloud data warehouse that combines traditional warehouse analytics with data lake query capabilities through a unified SQL engine, powered by AWS Graviton processors for high performance and cost efficiency. | An integrated data and AI platform built on open formats that merges transactional reliability with analytics and machine learning capabilities, enabling organizations to manage data, models, and AI applications together without vendor lock-in. |
| features.capabilities | `{"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"managed","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"proprietary","table_formats":"Iceberg, Parquet","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` | `{"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"managed","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"serverless","license_class":"proprietary","table_formats":"Delta, Iceberg","semi_structured":"first_class","streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 14 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Streaming services"},{"name":"Operational databases"},{"name":"Amazon MSK","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Teams"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Power Platform"},{"name":"Copilot Studio"},{"name":"Zerobus"},{"name":"Microsoft Power Platform","category":"integration_platform"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"Apache Spark","native":true},{"name":"MLflow","native":true},{"name":"Delta Lake","native":true},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","native":true},{"name":"Unity Catalog","native":true},{"name":"Lakeflow","native":true},{"name":"Databricks SQL","native":true},{"name":"Databricks Genie","native":true},{"name":"Lakebase","native":true},{"name":"dbt","native":false},{"name":"Trino","native":false},{"name":"LangChain","native":false},{"name":"PyTorch","native":false},{"name":"DSPy","native":false}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Provisioned On-Demand","features":["Flexible scaling","Pause and resume","Node type selection","Elastic Resize"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0.543,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Hourly billing for provisioned clusters with no long-term commitments; can pause/resume to avoid charges","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Provisioned Reserved Instances","features":["Significant discounts over on-demand","Steady-state workloads","Cost predictability"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Discounted pricing for reserved capacity with annual or multi-year commitment","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless","features":["Automatic capacity scaling","No idle charges","Seconds-based billing","Automatic shutdown"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.5,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Per-second billing with automatic scaling; no compute charges during idle periods","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Serverless Reservations","features":["Up to 45% savings on Serverless compute","Cross-account sharing","AWS payer account management"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Discounted Serverless rates; shareable across AWS accounts at the payer account level","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Redshift Managed Storage (RMS)"},{"name":"Concurrency Scaling"},{"name":"Redshift Spectrum"},{"name":"Redshift ML"}],"summary":"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.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:27:34.606Z","freeTrialDays":90,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.543,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","hour","second"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Data Engineering","summary":"From $0.15 / DBU per second","features":["Orchestrate data processing","Build streaming and batch pipelines","Ingest data from multiple sources"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.15,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Orchestrate data processing, machine learning and analytics pipelines","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Data Warehousing","summary":"From $0.22 / DBU per second","features":["SQL analytics","BI reporting","Available in Classic and Serverless compute"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.22,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Run SQL queries for BI reporting, analytics and visualization","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Interactive Workloads","summary":"From $0.40 / DBU per second","features":["Data science workloads","Build custom applications","Security and governance"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Run interactive data science and machine learning workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Operational Database","summary":"From $0.069 / CU per second","features":["Postgres database","Data and feature serving"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"CU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.069,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Fully-managed Postgres transactional database for data and feature serving","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Artificial Intelligence","summary":"From $0.07 / DBU per second","features":["GenAI applications","Model Serving","AI Functions","Model Training"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Build production-quality GenAI or ML applications","contactSales":false},{"free":true,"name":"Genie","summary":"From $0.07 / DBU beyond free usage","features":["Natural language Q&A","AI Coding Assistant","Enterprise Knowledge access"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"AI assistance for every team with natural language query access","contactSales":false}],"summary":"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.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://databricks.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:39:38.438Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.069,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | free |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"PCI-DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA/HITECH","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"FIPS 140-3","status":"active"},{"name":"NIST 800-171","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp | https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/genie-zeroops-data-quality-and-compliance-scale |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Amazon Redshift | Databricks |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Managed cloud |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | Clusters | Serverless |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific | Vendor-specific |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | - |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg, Parquet | Delta, Iceberg |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | Automatic |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | Functional | First-class |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Proprietary |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:14:14.828Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*