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January 6, 2026

Unlocking Faster Iceberg Queries: The Writer Optimizations You're Missing

Your Apache Iceberg tables are slow because of how your data was written into them.

John Kennedy

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January 31, 2021

Choosing Between The Best Federated Query Engine And a Data Warehouse

How companies should avoid creating a slow many headed federated Gorgon out of out of Athena.

Robert Meyer

January 17, 2021

Why even simple queries can be slow (but not with Firebolt)

Why even simple queries can be slow in cloud data warehouses and how Firebolt uses indexing to prune data and stay fast?

Boaz Farkash

January 7, 2021

How To Support Ad Hoc Analysis - Part 1

How to support ad hoc analysis: Part 1 - The 4 requirements for an ad hoc analytics architecture

Robert Meyer

January 7, 2021

How To Support Ad Hoc Analysis - Part 2

How to support ad hoc analysis - Part 2: The right ad hoc analytics architecture

Robert Meyer

December 23, 2020

The data hitchhiker’s guide to cloud analytics

"In the beginning, there was a data mess". Don’t Panic, just read our data hitchhiker’s guide to cloud analytics.

Robert Meyer

October 28, 2020

Who the Hell Needs Another Cloud Data Warehouse?

There’s so many data warehouses out there, who the hell needs another one? Three main things that make Firebolt unique.

Eldad Farkash

February 10, 2020

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 3, 2020

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

The Future of Data Warehousing in the Age of AI: 5 Key Trends from Firebolt Forward

Legacy BI tools can’t keep up with AI. Firebolt Forward revealed 5 trends defining the future.

Monica Cisneros

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Blog

Unlocking Faster Iceberg Queries: The Writer Optimizations You're Missing

Choosing Between The Best Federated Query Engine And a Data Warehouse

Why even simple queries can be slow (but not with Firebolt)

How To Support Ad Hoc Analysis - Part 1

How To Support Ad Hoc Analysis - Part 2

The data hitchhiker’s guide to cloud analytics

Who the Hell Needs Another Cloud Data Warehouse?

Snowflake vs. Redshift: Cloud Data Warehouse Comparison

Snowflake vs Databricks

The Future of Data Warehousing in the Age of AI: 5 Key Trends from Firebolt Forward

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