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Head-to-head · Columnar Databases

Amazon Redshift vs Exasol

  • Updated Oct 2026
  • Both researched from official sources
  • 1 check side by side
Higher score Amazon Redshift #2 in Columnar Databases 9.2/10 Paid ✓ 0 of 3 features Try Amazon Redshift
Exasol #6 in Columnar Databases 8.6/10 Free plan · 30-day trial Free planFree trial✓ 0 of 3 features Visit Exasol

Amazon Redshift leads on 0 checks, Exasol on 1, and 0 are even. Who comes out ahead on the 1 yes/no, price and count check where we have data for both products. The editor score weighs everything else too.

Our verdict

  • Highest scoreAmazon Redshift · 9.2/10
  • Free planonly Exasol
  • Free trialonly Exasol

Amazon Redshift scores higher on our rubric for columnar databases: 9.2 against 8.6 out of 10; our editors rank them #2 and #6.

Exasol offers free plan; Amazon Redshift doesn't. On deployment model, Exasol gives you Hybrid where Amazon Redshift offers Cloud.

Amazon Redshift is the better fit for AWS-centered enterprise analytics. Exasol is the better fit for managed and self-hosted enterprise warehousing.

  • Amazon Redshift fits best

    AWS-centered enterprise analytics

  • Exasol fits best

    Managed and self-hosted enterprise warehousing

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Side by side

Feature Amazon Redshift 9.2/10 Visit ↗ Exasol 8.6/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score 9.2 8.6
Ranking #2 in Columnar Databases #6 in Columnar Databases
Best for AWS-centered enterprise analytics Managed and self-hosted enterprise warehousing
Pricing model Paid Free plan + paid
Starting price $0.54/unit usage-based $25/GB/mo
Free plan — ✓ (best)
Free trial — 30 days
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted, Desktop
Platforms Web Web, macOS, Linux
Support Email, Live chat, Phone, Tickets, Docs Email, Phone, Tickets, Community, Docs · 24/7
Compliance SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SSO/SAML, 2FA ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS
Integrations 15 integrations 14 integrations
Built for Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Amazon Redshift 0/3 · Exasol 0/3
Managed service Not checked yet Not checked yet
Object storage support Not checked yet Not checked yet
Streaming ingestion Not checked yet Not checked yet
Specs
Deployment model Cloud Hybrid
Supported data formats Not checked yet Not checked yet
Included storage Not checked yet Not checked yet
Our review
Pros
  • Provisioned and serverless deployments with separate storage scaling
  • Queries Amazon S3 data lakes and ingests streams from AWS services
  • Redshift ML supports model creation, training, and deployment with SQL
  • In-memory MPP processing supports high-concurrency analytical queries
  • Separate storage and compute with S3 and Azure Data Lake querying
  • Native Python, R, and Java machine-learning model execution
Cons
  • No free plan is available
  • Serverless pricing starts at $1.5 per hour
  • Managed storage is billed separately for RG and RA3 provisioned nodes
  • Storage costs are billed separately at $25 per TB per month
  • Advanced capacity tiers can reach $158.40 per hour
  • The platform is proprietary rather than open source
Our verdict

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse for analyzing large datasets with SQL. It is aimed at data teams, analysts, developers, and organizations running business intelligence, data lake, real-time analytics, and predictive…

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Exasol is an in-memory, massively parallel analytics database for data warehousing, business intelligence, lakehouse acceleration, and AI/ML workloads. It is aimed at data teams, developers, and enterprises that need high-concurrency SQL…

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  1. Amazon RedshiftColumnar Databases 9.2Paid
  2. ExasolColumnar Databases 8.6Free plan · 30-day trial

Strengths and trade-offs

  • Amazon Redshift — where it wins

    • Provisioned and serverless deployments with separate storage scaling
    • Queries Amazon S3 data lakes and ingests streams from AWS services
    • Redshift ML supports model creation, training, and deployment with SQL

    Where it doesn't

    • No free plan is available
    • Serverless pricing starts at $1.5 per hour
    • Managed storage is billed separately for RG and RA3 provisioned nodes

  • Exasol — where it wins

    • In-memory MPP processing supports high-concurrency analytical queries
    • Separate storage and compute with S3 and Azure Data Lake querying
    • Native Python, R, and Java machine-learning model execution

    Where it doesn't

    • Storage costs are billed separately at $25 per TB per month
    • Advanced capacity tiers can reach $158.40 per hour
    • The platform is proprietary rather than open source

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Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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