The Yellowbrick Challenge: Yellowbrick vs. Snowflake vs. Redshift

Опубликовано: 13 Июль 2026
на канале: Yellowbrick Data
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Yellowbrick is fast. Blazing fast! See the side-by-side comparison between Snowflake, Redshift, and Yellowbrick performance when running with TPC-DS data.

Yellowbrick completes the job in less than 1/5th the time and up to 76% cheaper!

Dataset:
TPC-DS dataset loaded in Yellowbrick, Snowflake, and Redshift
100 GB, 1.2 billion row fact table
Exact same data in all the three DBs
– No tuning

Workload:
456 Unique SQL queries
Mix of complex, slow-running, and simple queries
Same queries / same order against all the three DBs
11 threads driving concurrency

Compute Cluster Size:
Yellowbrick: 5x small nodes ($11.33/hour, 1-Year Subscription)
Snowflake: 16 node XL (16 credits, $32/hour, Standard Edition)
Redshift: Serverless (80 RPUs, $30.08/hour on-demand)

Ready to learn more? Book a demo at https://yellowbrick.com/book-a-demo/