# Firebolt vs Trino

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Firebolt

| Attribute | Firebolt | Trino |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 62.2 (69% (medium)) | 52.1 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 468 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 13,183 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | High-performance open-source analytical database supporting real-time analytics and batch processing. Runs as a single binary on laptops and scales to hundreds of nodes and petabytes in the cloud with per-second billing. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"hybrid","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","table_formats":"Iceberg, DuckLake","streaming_ingest":true}` | `{"deployment":"self","sql_dialect":"ansi","architecture":"coupled_mpp","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","federation_query":true}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Copilot"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"RudderStack"},{"name":"Onfire"},{"name":"Calendly"},{"name":"Cal.com"},{"name":"Smartlead"},{"name":"Zapier"}]` | `[{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Apache Airflow"},{"name":"Apache DolphinScheduler"},{"name":"Coginiti"},{"name":"Cube"},{"name":"DBeaver"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"DbVisualizer"},{"name":"Emacs"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Superset"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Hadoop"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free self-hosted","features":["self-hosted","no limits"],"description":"Self-hosted, fully open source, no limits","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Managed Service","summary":"From $0.92/hr per node + $0.0264/GB·mo storage. Includes $200 free credits.","features":["per-second billing","auto-scaling","auto start/resume","scale to zero","workload isolation","online version upgrades"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"S node","amount":0.92,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"metered","unit":"gb","amount":0.0264,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Cloud-managed analytical database with per-second billing","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"free_credits":"$200"}},{"free":false,"name":"Bring Your Own Cloud","description":"Managed service on your cloud infrastructure","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source self-hosted option, or managed service from $0.92/hr per node + $0.0264/GB·mo. Includes $200 free credits.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.firebolt.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:40:52.479Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.0264,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://trino.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:22:01.158Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 45 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/483","date":"2026-07-18T01:28:57Z","type":"stable","version":"483"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/482","date":"2026-06-25T19:22:28Z","type":"stable","version":"482"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/481","date":"2026-05-12T01:03:57Z","type":"stable","version":"481"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/480","date":"2026-03-24T23:06:31Z","type":"stable","version":"480"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/479","date":"2025-12-15T03:19:30Z","type":"stable","version":"479"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/478","date":"2025-10-29T18:42:57Z","type":"stable","version":"478"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/477","date":"2025-09-25T00:32:51Z","type":"stable","version":"477"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.6 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=io.trino%3Atrino-jdbc&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Firebolt | Trino |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Hybrid | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | Coupled MPP |
| Compute model | Clusters | Clusters |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific | ANSI SQL |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | - | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Iceberg, DuckLake | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | - | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | - |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | - | - |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | - | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:09:29.285Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*