<story><title>Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/fact-or-fiction-google-big-query-outperforms-amazon-redshift-as-an-enterprise-data-warehouse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cidan</author><text>&amp;quot;...8-node DC1.8XL Amazon Redshift cluster for the tests.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Well, yeah. That&amp;#x27;s 28,108.80 a month if you&amp;#x27;re running queries on demand and don&amp;#x27;t want a delay&amp;#x2F;coordination in Amazon instance creation&amp;#x2F;destruction.&lt;p&gt;BQ may or may not be as fast, but it&amp;#x27;s truly a managed service; I give it our data and it just works. I don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about instances, boot up time, maintenance, hourly costs, etc. It&amp;#x27;s silly to focus just on query speed when there&amp;#x27;s a whole layer of management and cost that comes with it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/fact-or-fiction-google-big-query-outperforms-amazon-redshift-as-an-enterprise-data-warehouse/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ktamura</author><text>Before this thread turns into a vim-v-emacs-esque flame war.&lt;p&gt;I really think it&amp;#x27;s a good thing that AWS and GCP are punching each other in the cloud data warehousing market. It means that the market is maturing, and we are all benefiting from their arms race against each other.&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that Redshift and BigQuery are philosophically different enough that performance differences, while important, shouldn&amp;#x27;t be the deciding factor. I&amp;#x27;ve written about this in a blog post awhile back, and it might be relevant for folks weighing their options&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.treasuredata.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;redshift-bigquery-similarities-differences-and-serverless-future&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.treasuredata.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;redshift-bigqu...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disclosures:&lt;p&gt;1. I don&amp;#x27;t work at either.&lt;p&gt;2. My employer, however, partners with both.</text></comment>