Amazon Redshift vs Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB

Amazon Redshift9.2Visit Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB8.5Visit

Higher score Amazon Redshift #2 in Data Warehouse Software 9.2/10 Paid ✓ 4 of 4 features Try Amazon Redshift

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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB #7 in Data Warehouse Software 8.5/10 Paid ✓ 4 of 4 features Visit Alibaba Cloud

• Amazon Redshift fits best

  AWS-centric analytics teams

• Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB fits best

  Large-scale cloud analytics with flexible scaling

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Side by side

Feature	Amazon Redshift 9.2/10 Visit ↗	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.2	8.5
Ranking	#2 in Data Warehouse Software	#7 in Data Warehouse Software
Best for	AWS-centric analytics teams	Large-scale cloud analytics with flexible scaling
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	$0.54/unit usage-based	$119/mo
Free plan	—	Not checked yet
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Email, Live chat, Phone, Tickets, Docs	Live chat, Tickets, Docs
Integrations	15 integrations	19 integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Amazon Redshift 4/4 · Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB 4/4
Separate storage and compute	✓	✓
Data lake support	✓	✓
Streaming ingestion	✓	✓
In-database machine learning	✓	✓
Specs
Deployment model	Cloud	Cloud
Pricing model	Hybrid	Hybrid
Our review
Pros	Provisioned and serverless deployment options Queries Amazon S3 data lakes and supports streaming ingestion Native SQL-based machine learning with Redshift ML	Decouples storage and compute for independent scaling Supports real-time ingestion, lakehouse querying, Spark, and native ML Offers MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible analytical warehouses
Cons	No free plan Serverless is priced at $1.50 per hour Managed storage is billed separately for some provisioned nodes	No free plan is listed Pricing varies by region, edition, and resource configuration Separate MySQL and PostgreSQL offerings can complicate product selection
Our verdict	Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse for analyzing large datasets with SQL. It supports data teams, analysts, developers, and organizations running business intelligence, data lake, real-time analytics, and predictive… Read the review →	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB is a managed, cloud-native data warehouse for organizations running real-time ingestion, online analytical processing, batch ETL, BI workloads, and petabyte-scale analytics. It is available in MySQL- and… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Amazon Redshift — where it wins

  • Provisioned and serverless deployment options
  • Queries Amazon S3 data lakes and supports streaming ingestion
  • Native SQL-based machine learning with Redshift ML

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan
  • Serverless is priced at $1.50 per hour
  • Managed storage is billed separately for some provisioned nodes

• Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB — where it wins

  • Decouples storage and compute for independent scaling
  • Supports real-time ingestion, lakehouse querying, Spark, and native ML
  • Offers MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible analytical warehouses

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan is listed
  • Pricing varies by region, edition, and resource configuration
  • Separate MySQL and PostgreSQL offerings can complicate product selection

• Amazon Redshift9.2/10 · Paid

  A broad AWS-native warehouse with flexible deployments, but no free plan.

  Try Amazon RedshiftFull verdict →
• Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB8.5/10 · Paid

  A flexible cloud warehouse for MPP analytics, streaming data, lakehouses, and machine learning.

  Visit Alibaba CloudFull verdict →