Amazon Redshift vs Teradata
No leader: the top candidate Teradata has only 0.14 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
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.
Teradata
Teradata's Autonomous Knowledge Platform connects multi-modal data, operationalizes AI and analytics, and embeds intelligence into workflows for autonomous decision-making at scale. Supports cloud and on-premises deployments.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Amazon Redshift
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
Teradata
Consumption-based pricing: from $4.80/hour compute + storage from $276/TB/year (object storage). On-demand and commitment options. Pricing for U.S. region; data transfer charged separately.
- StandardFrom $4.80/hour compute (U.S. region only)
- Teradata Engine
- Premier Cloud Support
- VantageCloud LakeFrom $6.00/hour compute (U.S. region only)
- Teradata Engine
- VantageCloud Lake+From $7.20/hour compute (U.S. region only)
- Teradata Engine
- Priority Service
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Bedrock
- Apache Iceberg
- Apache Parquet
- Streaming services
- Operational databases
Teradata
Not documented yet.
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.