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June 13, 2025

Live Engine Upgrades, Zero Downtime: The Firebolt Method

Discover how Firebolt delivers seamless, no-downtime upgrades using shadow clusters and real-time performance.

Ilya Shakhat

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June 22, 2022

A new level of efficiency in analytics

Are you spending more than you planned on your Data Warehouse? Analyze more. Use less compute resources.

Boaz Farkash

June 20, 2022

Loading Snowplow data into Firebolt with dbt

How to enable sub-second analysis across billions of rows of customer behavior data: Part I - Setting up the load

Todd Beauchene

May 12, 2022

Simplicity and Power of Agg Indexes at Scale

One of the ways Firebolt is able to support data-driven applications is by leveraging aggregating indexes on the tables.

David Welch

March 6, 2022

5 steps to debug your complex SQL queries in Firebolt

Let us guide you through the process of identifying the performance bottlenecks in your query in just 5 simple steps.

Matan Sarig

February 15, 2022

Future of Performance is Not About Performance

The data warehousing market has gone absolutely mad over performance. Why is this the case?

Tino Tereshko

February 10, 2022

SQL: Thinking in Lambdas

Many programming languages are imperative – tell the compiler how to operate by providing the instructions in order.

Octavian Zarzu

January 26, 2022

Firebolt Announces Series C Round at $1.4 Billion Valuation to Build the World's Fastest and Most Versatile Cloud Data Warehouse

Demand from engineering teams has skyrocketed since Firebolt emerged from stealth last year

Firebolt Team

December 9, 2021

Firebolt Indexes in Action (clustered and non-clustered)

Indexes are the primary way for users to accelerate query performance in Firebolt. Learn about them here.

Octavian Zarzu

November 23, 2021

Cloud Data Warehouse: The Hitchhikers Guide

Everything you needed to know about cloud data warehouses but were afraid to ask...

Firebolt Academy

November 17, 2021

Postgres and MySQL for Analytics - Meeting the 1 second SLA

Learn when to use Postgres, MySQL, in-memory databases, HTAP, or data warehouses to meet the 1 sec SLA in analytics.

Robert Meyer

October 19, 2021

Top 10 Ways to Improve Cloud Data Warehouse Performance (And how it’s done in Firebolt)

Lear the top 10 tips of how to improve your cloud data warehouse performance.

Robert Meyer

August 19, 2021

Snowflake vs Databricks vs Firebolt

More and more, people are asking me “how do you compare Snowflake and Databricks?” We did our best to answer.

Robert Meyer

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Blog

Live Engine Upgrades, Zero Downtime: The Firebolt Method

A new level of efficiency in analytics

Loading Snowplow data into Firebolt with dbt

Simplicity and Power of Agg Indexes at Scale

5 steps to debug your complex SQL queries in Firebolt

Future of Performance is Not About Performance

SQL: Thinking in Lambdas

Firebolt Announces Series C Round at $1.4 Billion Valuation to Build the World's Fastest and Most Versatile Cloud Data Warehouse

Firebolt Indexes in Action (clustered and non-clustered)

Cloud Data Warehouse: The Hitchhikers Guide

Postgres and MySQL for Analytics - Meeting the 1 second SLA

Top 10 Ways to Improve Cloud Data Warehouse Performance (And how it’s done in Firebolt)

Snowflake vs Databricks vs Firebolt