I've used Redshift for many years and really like it, especially as a user. I'm following the development of DuckDB and one aspect that's nice about it is how predictable prices are when you run it on dedicated servers: https://fet.dev/posts/costs-of-analytics-on-dedicated-hardwa... .
If you don't have huge amounts of data I would take a look at it. Also, Cloudflare R2 might be a good alternative to S3 because there are no egress costs.
I'm following the development of DuckDB and one aspect that's nice about it is how predictable prices are when you run it on dedicated servers:
Are the predictable prices worth the trade-off of more labor to operate the servers? I work for a database vendor and find the economic trade-offs quite fascinating.
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I've used Redshift for many years and really like it, especially as a user. I'm following the development of DuckDB and one aspect that's nice about it is how predictable prices are when you run it on dedicated servers: https://fet.dev/posts/costs-of-analytics-on-dedicated-hardwa... .
If you don't have huge amounts of data I would take a look at it. Also, Cloudflare R2 might be a good alternative to S3 because there are no egress costs.
Are the predictable prices worth the trade-off of more labor to operate the servers? I work for a database vendor and find the economic trade-offs quite fascinating.