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May 5, 2025

GROUPING SETS as a pure planner rewrite ? Yep - it's possible

Learn how GROUPING SETS work and how Firebolt’s implementation uses smart query planning to execute them efficiently.

Julia Spindler

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May 5, 2025

GROUPING SETS as a pure planner rewrite ? Yep - it's possible

Learn how GROUPING SETS work and how Firebolt’s implementation uses smart query planning to execute them efficiently.

Julia Spindler

Engineering

April 18, 2025

Decomposing Firebolt transactions

Explore how Firebolt transaction manager works

Mosha Pasumansky

Product

March 27, 2025

The Process of Running FireScale Benchmarks

Learn about the methodology behind constructing and running the FireScale benchmarks.

Cole Bowden

Product

March 27, 2025

Introducing FireScale - A Benchmark for High Performance and High Concurrency Analytics Workloads

FireScale reveals Firebolt’s 8x-90x price-performance edge & near-linear concurrency scaling for next-gen analytics.

Manish Agarwal

Product

March 12, 2025

Under the Hood of Firebolt Compute Families

Dive into why Firebolt introduced a new compute family and when you'd want to use it.

Cole Bowden

Product

March 12, 2025

Introducing Firebolt Editions and Compute Family Choices

Choose the right edition and compute family to optimize query performance and cost-efficiency with Firebolt.

Manish Agarwal

Engineering

March 12, 2025

Robust and efficient geospatial operations using snap rounding (Part III)

We will explore in more detail how Firebolt implements robust operations on geospatial data.

Demian Hespe

February 20, 2025

Firebolt February Release Roundup: Versions 4.12 to 4.14 -> Faster queries, RBAC upgrades, and geospatial boosts

Recap of the three most recent releases in Firebolt, including changes from versions 4.12, 4.13, and 4.14.

Cole Bowden

Engineering

February 14, 2025

Architecture and Internal Representation of the GEOGRAPHY Data Type (Part II)

Discover how Firebolt structures & optimizes GEOGRAPHY data with S2 cells, shape indexes, and pruning for fast queries.

Demian Hespe

February 6, 2025

Firebolt Welcomes Former Oracle and Confluent Leader Hemanth Vedagarbha as President, Overseeing Global Go-To-Market Expansion and Customer-Facing Operations

Firebolt names Hemanth Vedagarbha as President to lead global GTM expansion and scale its AI-powered data warehouse.

Firebolt Team

Product

February 5, 2025

Introducing Geospatial Analytics in Firebolt: Powering Location Intelligence at Scale

Announcing the public preview of Firebolt's Geospatial Analytics, bringing low-latency, spatial data processing to CDW.

Tara Shankar Jana

Engineering

February 5, 2025

Building Geospatial Support in Firebolt (Part-I)

This blog post explores how Firebolt implements geospatial support under the hood.

Demian Hespe

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Blog

GROUPING SETS as a pure planner rewrite ? Yep - it's possible

GROUPING SETS as a pure planner rewrite ? Yep - it's possible

Decomposing Firebolt transactions

The Process of Running FireScale Benchmarks

Introducing FireScale - A Benchmark for High Performance and High Concurrency Analytics Workloads

Under the Hood of Firebolt Compute Families

Introducing Firebolt Editions and Compute Family Choices

Robust and efficient geospatial operations using snap rounding (Part III)

Firebolt February Release Roundup: Versions 4.12 to 4.14 -> Faster queries, RBAC upgrades, and geospatial boosts

Architecture and Internal Representation of the GEOGRAPHY Data Type (Part II)

Firebolt Welcomes Former Oracle and Confluent Leader Hemanth Vedagarbha as President, Overseeing Global Go-To-Market Expansion and Customer-Facing Operations

Introducing Geospatial Analytics in Firebolt: Powering Location Intelligence at Scale

Building Geospatial Support in Firebolt (Part-I)