# Amazon Redshift vs SingleStore

**Leader by Vioscale score:** SingleStore

| Attribute | Amazon Redshift | SingleStore |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 55 (73% (medium)) | 72 (72% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) database that combines real-time transactions, analytics, and AI capabilities in a single engine for enterprise applications. |
| 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"}` | `{"deployment":"hybrid","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"coupled_mpp","license_class":"proprietary","semi_structured":"first_class","streaming_ingest":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Parquet"},{"name":"Streaming services"},{"name":"Operational databases"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"HDFS"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Azure AD"},{"name":"Ping"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":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":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free Workspace","summary":"Free","features":["Shared Workspace","All SQL and Programmability features","Monitoring","Self-support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Shared workspace for evaluation, development and non-production testing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"Starts at $0.99/hr + $0.023/GB storage","features":["Read-replicas","All SQL and Programmability features","Database Branching","Monitoring (30-day)","99.9% SLA (1 AZ) or 99.99% SLA (2 AZ)","Standard Support"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.99,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.023,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For general-purpose production workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Standard BYOC","summary":"Contact us for pricing","features":["Fully managed within customer VPC","Read-replicas","All SQL and Programmability features","Monitoring (30-day)","Standard Support"],"description":"Bring Your Own Cloud - fully managed within customer VPC","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Starts at $1.49/hr","features":["Online PITR","Smart DR","Audit Logging","CMEK","99.9% SLA (1 AZ) or 99.99% SLA (2 AZ)"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.49,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Enhanced DR & security for customer-facing workloads","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Usage-based with commitment options. Compute from $0.99/hr (Standard) or $1.49/hr (Enterprise); storage $0.023/GB. Includes $600 free credits for Standard.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.singlestore.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:41:44.172Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.023,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Amazon Redshift | SingleStore |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Hybrid |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Coupled MPP |
| Compute model | Clusters | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific | Vendor-specific |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | - |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg, Parquet | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:34:35.107Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*