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Data warehouses · October 2026 Edition

Amazon Redshift vs ClickHouse Cloud

Zero of fourteen models named Amazon Redshift first on the direct prompt; zero named ClickHouse Cloud. Amazon Redshift was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and ClickHouse Cloud by twelve and Amazon Redshift carries 80 labels and ClickHouse Cloud 25, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Amazon Redshift

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

ClickHouse Cloud

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate16%12%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#4A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels8025A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Amazon Redshift reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Snowflake was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Snowflake vs Amazon Redshift · Snowflake vs ClickHouse Cloud · Google BigQuery vs Amazon Redshift

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the data warehouses page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Amazon RedshiftFirst choices, of fourteen modelsClickHouse Cloud
Direct00
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained111 against ClickHouse Cloud
Scale-constrained00
Negative0013 against Amazon Redshift · 2 against ClickHouse Cloud
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Amazon Redshift and ClickHouse Cloud were named in the same answer sixty-seven times, of the 227 answers naming Amazon Redshift and the 200 naming ClickHouse Cloud. In those answers ClickHouse Cloud took the first choice one time and Amazon Redshift two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Amazon Redshift and ClickHouse Cloud stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Amazon Redshift ClickHouse Cloud first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Amazon Redshift on the left and ClickHouse Cloud on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Amazon Redshift and ClickHouse Cloud stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Snowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
GPT-5.4 miniSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
Gemini 3.5 FlashSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, MotherDuck
Grok 4.1 FastGoogle BigQuery alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Snowflake
Mistral SmallSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
DeepSeek V4 FlashGoogle BigQuery, Snowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift
Qwen 3.7 FlashSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
Kimi K2Google BigQuery alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Snowflake
GLM 4.7 FlashXSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery
MiniMax M2.5Snowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery
GPT-6 LunaSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
Muse Glimmer 30BSnowflake alternatives: Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL Database, Google BigQuery

Neither was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Perplexity SonarSnowflake alternatives: Azure SQL Database, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Amazon Redshift leads by five points.
Amazon Redshift5%#4 of 8
ClickHouse Cloud0%#5 of 8
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Amazon Redshift2%#3 of 8
ClickHouse Cloud2%#4 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Amazon Redshift leads by twelve points.
Amazon Redshift12%#3 of 7
ClickHouse Cloud0%#7 of 7
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Amazon Redshift

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Why avoid it: In a provisioned Redshift environment, you pay for the nodes 24/7 regardless of whether you are querying them.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“Most frequent cautions: Highest complexity for optimization/maintenance... Avoid if: Non-AWS shop, small team, or need serverless ease.” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · soft negative
“single-cloud options such as BigQuery on GCP and Redshift on AWS, are the ones practitioners most often advise to evaluate carefully” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift are typically the most budget-friendly options” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“If you are AWS-native with steady, high-concurrency reporting workloads, Redshift / Redshift Serverless gives predictable provisioned throughput.” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Amazon Redshift Serverless has closed the gap significantly, but historically, traditional Redshift required more hands-on optimization.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · alternative

What the models said about ClickHouse Cloud

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“startups like ClickHouse, Tinybird, or MotherDuck are popular, they carry different risks than established giants” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · soft negative
“worth evaluating but may not yet have the maturity of the top three” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative
“ClickHouse Cloud delivers the strongest overall cost-performance, with the lowest runtime × cost value.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.