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Amazon Redshift vs Fivetran
Short answer: Pick Amazon Redshift if you want SQL analytics on petabyte-scale data; pick Fivetran if you want managed ELT pipelines for AI and analytics. Amazon Redshift is paid, with a free trial; Fivetran has a free plan.
Which to pick
Pick Amazon Redshift if you want…
- SQL analytics on petabyte-scale data
- Cloud data warehouse
- Integrations with Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Aurora or Amazon Kinesis (on Amazon Redshift's list, not Fivetran's)
Pick Fivetran if you want…
- Managed ELT pipelines for AI and analytics
- A free plan to start with
- Integrations with dbt Core, REST API or SSH tunnels (on Fivetran's list, not Amazon Redshift's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Amazon Redshift:Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse for fast, scalable SQL analytics on structured and lakehouse data.
- Fivetran:Fivetran provides managed data pipelines that move and model data from sources to warehouses or lakes for analytics and AI.
- Best for
- Amazon Redshift:SQL analytics on petabyte-scale data
- Fivetran:Managed ELT pipelines for AI and analytics
- Who it’s for
- Amazon Redshift:Data engineers, analysts, and developers building analytics or AI workloads on AWS.
- Fivetran:Data engineers, analytics teams, and AI developers needing reliable data integration.
- Pricing
- Amazon Redshift:Paid
- Fivetran:Freemium
- Free plan or trial
- Amazon Redshift:Free trial
- Fivetran:Free plan (Free) · Free trial
- Plans
- Amazon Redshift:Provisioned (On-Demand) $0.543 per hour per hour · Serverless $1.50 per hour per hour (per-second increment
- Fivetran:Free $0
- Works with
- Amazon Redshift:Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon MSK, Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI, Apache Iceberg
- Fivetran:dbt Core, REST API, SSH tunnels, AWS, GCP, Azure, Salesforce, HubSpot
Amazon Redshift features
- Serverless compute. Redshift Serverless auto-scales compute and charges per-second, eliminating cluster management.
- RG and RA3 nodes. Graviton-powered RG instances deliver up to 2.4× faster queries at 30% lower per-vCPU cost.
- Open format support. Native read/write of Apache Iceberg v3 and Parquet tables directly from S3.
- Integrated ML & AI. Run Redshift ML and use Amazon Bedrock or SageMaker for in-SQL machine-learning and generative AI.
- Concurrency scaling & reservations. Automatic extra compute for burst workloads with optional reservations for up to 45% cost savings.
Fivetran features
- Fully managed connectors. Move data from 750+ sources to destinations without custom code.
- Real-time syncs. Standard plan offers 15-minute syncs; Enterprise offers 1-minute syncs.
- Semantic layer. Define business metrics once and reuse them across teams and AI agents.
- Activations. Push synced data to downstream apps like Salesforce or HubSpot.
- Transformations. Run up to 5,000 model runs free per month with usage-based pricing.
- Enterprise security. SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, private networking and encryption.
Amazon Redshift vs Fivetran FAQ
What is the difference between Amazon Redshift and Fivetran?+
Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse; Fivetran supplies the managed connectors to load data into Redshift.
Should I use Amazon Redshift or Fivetran?+
Pick Amazon Redshift if you want SQL analytics on petabyte-scale data, cloud data warehouse or integrations with Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Aurora or Amazon Kinesis (on Amazon Redshift's list, not Fivetran's). Pick Fivetran if you want managed ELT pipelines for AI and analytics, a free plan to start with or integrations with dbt Core, REST API or SSH tunnels (on Fivetran's list, not Amazon Redshift's).
Is Amazon Redshift or Fivetran free?+
Amazon Redshift is paid, with a free trial. Fivetran has a free plan and paid plans.
Do Amazon Redshift and Fivetran integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Amazon Redshift lists Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon MSK and 5 more; Fivetran lists dbt Core, REST API, SSH tunnels, AWS and 4 more.
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