Here’s the difference between Redshift and Snowplow. The comparison is based on pricing, deployment, business model, and other important factors.
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed petabyte scale data warehouse service. Redshift is designed for analytic workloads and connects to standard SQL based clients and business intelligence tools. Redshift delivers fast query and I/O performance for virtually any size dataset by using columnar storage technology and parallelizing and distributing queries across multiple nodes. Most common administrative tasks associated with provisioning, configuring, monitoring, backing up, and securing a data warehouse are automated.
Snowplow is a provider of digital analytics for multiple platforms. It identifies users and tracks the way they engage with websites, applications, or IoT. It stores user's behavioral data in a scalable event data warehouse which can be plugged in with any analysis tool to crunch that data including big data toolsets, traditional BI tools, statistical and graphical tools. It enables to join web analytics and other snowplow event data with third-party data sources such as marketing data sets, customer data sets. The clients of the company include weebly, THE ICONIC, Unsplash, etc.