vioscale
Comparison

Amazon Redshift vs Trino

No clear leader: Amazon Redshift (55.0) and Trino (52.1) 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 →Trino full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Redshift55
Trino52
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Redshift55 / 100medium · 73%
Trino52 / 100medium · 54%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino✓
Model
Amazon Redshiftfreemium
Trinoopen_source
Price level
Amazon Redshiftlow
Trinofree
Transparent
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon Redshift7
Trino18
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino–
Fedramp
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino–
Gdpr
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino–
Hipaa
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino–
Pci
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino–
Scorecard
Amazon Redshift–
Trino5.6
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Amazon Redshift–
Trino468
Github stars
Amazon Redshift–
Trino13,183
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Redshift–
Trino100
Release
Cadence days
Amazon Redshift–
Trino45
History
Amazon Redshift–
Trino7 items
License
Spdx
Amazon Redshift–
TrinoApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Amazon Redshift–
TrinoJava
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Deployment
Amazon RedshiftManaged cloud
TrinoSelf-hosted
Architecture
Architecture
Amazon RedshiftSeparated storage/compute
TrinoCoupled MPP
Compute model
Amazon RedshiftClusters
TrinoClusters
Query
SQL dialect
Amazon RedshiftVendor-specific
TrinoANSI SQL
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino✓
Interoperability
Table-format support
Amazon RedshiftIceberg, Parquet
Trino-
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Amazon RedshiftAutomatic
Trino-
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino-
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
Amazon RedshiftFunctional
Trino-
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino-
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino-
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon RedshiftProprietary
TrinoPermissive OSS

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

Trino

An open-source SQL query engine built for fast, distributed analytics over large-scale datasets stored in multiple systems. It enables users to query data in place without copying, supporting interactive analytics workloads from single queries to high-volume applications.

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 ↗

Trino

Open sourceFree tier
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✓
Trino✗
CLI
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Redshift✓
Trino✓
Self-hosted
Amazon Redshift✗
Trino✓
On-premise
Amazon Redshift✗
Trino✓

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

Trino

18 total
  • Grafana
  • Apache Airflow
  • Apache DolphinScheduler
  • Coginiti
  • Cube
  • DBeaver
  • dbt
  • DbVisualizer
  • Emacs
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Superset
  • R
  • Hadoop
  • S3
  • Cassandra
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
Independently observed

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