Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery
&quot;...8-node DC1.8XL Amazon Redshift cluster for the tests.&quot;<p>Well, yeah. That&#x27;s 28,108.80 a month if you&#x27;re running queries on demand and don&#x27;t want a delay&#x2F;coordination in Amazon instance creation&#x2F;destruction.<p>BQ may or may not be as fast, but it&#x27;s truly a managed service; I give it our data and it just works. I don&#x27;t have to worry about instances, boot up time, maintenance, hourly costs, etc. It&#x27;s silly to focus just on query speed when there&#x27;s a whole layer of management and cost that comes with it.