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August 1, 2025

Firebolt Auror

Firebolt built Auror, a blazing-fast admission webhook to cut latency and secure Kubernetes image validation.

Cem Denizsel

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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 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

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Blog

Firebolt Auror

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)

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

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