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Redshift vs BigQuery vs Snowflake — how do you choose a cloud data warehouse?

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Redshift, BigQuery, and Snowflake are all columnar MPP analytics warehouses, but they differ in how compute is provisioned and billed. That single difference — cluster, serverless, or virtual warehouse — drives nearly every practical trade-off.…