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June 27, 2025

Making Firebolt Fast By Doing Practically Nothing

Learn about the different methods deployed in Firebolt for reducing the number of scanned rows (aka pruning).

Ori Brostovski

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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 10, 2025

Snowflake vs. Redshift: Cloud Data Warehouse Comparison

A detailed comparison of Snowflake vs. Redshift, by architecture, scalability, performance, use cases and cost.

Robert Meyer

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

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

February 3, 2025

Snowflake vs Databricks

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

Robert Meyer

Engineering

January 16, 2025

Firebolt’s zero-copy clone

Firebolt’s Zero-Copy Clone Feature: A cost-efficient way to clone massive tables instantly without duplicating data.

Gil Cizer

Product

January 14, 2025

Firebolt Trial For 30 Days With $200 Free Credits — Now Open to All

Firebolt now welcomes sign-ups with personal email addresses. Explore Firebolt’s low-latency, high-concurrency CDW.

Jonathan Thein

Customer Blogs

January 13, 2025

From MySQL Bottlenecks to Firebolt Power: 28X Faster Analytics at Lower Cost

Vrio's CTO explores how Firebolt reduced ecommerce analytics latency from minutes to milliseconds, while reducing TCO.

Ryan McWilliams

Product

December 20, 2024

Firebolt Features: Effortless Metadata Management For Faster Workflows

Learn how Firebolt streamlines metadata management with zero-copy cloning, dynamic schema evolution for faster workflows

Jonathan Thein

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Blog

Making Firebolt Fast By Doing Practically Nothing

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)

Snowflake vs. Redshift: Cloud Data Warehouse Comparison

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

Building Geospatial Support in Firebolt (Part-I)

Snowflake vs Databricks

Firebolt’s zero-copy clone

Firebolt Trial For 30 Days With $200 Free Credits — Now Open to All

From MySQL Bottlenecks to Firebolt Power: 28X Faster Analytics at Lower Cost

Firebolt Features: Effortless Metadata Management For Faster Workflows

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