Firebolt Core is a free, self-hosted edition of Firebolt’s distributed query engine available as a project on GitHub; it provides high-performance data warehousing capabilities that can be deployed anywhere from a single laptop to enterprise datacenters.The product is designed for users who need low-latency, high-concurrency analytics but require self-hosted deployment due to cost considerations, data sovereignty requirements, or existing on-premise infrastructure.
🚀 Powerful. Firebolt Core ships with all key performance and usability features of Firebolt’s managed Cloud data warehouse, including a state-of-the-art query optimizer, distributed query execution engine, Iceberg support, and many more.
🆓 Free to use. Firebolt Core is free to use, forever (see the LICENSE for details).
📈 No usage limits. Firebolt Core has no usage limits. Process unlimited data, scale to as many nodes as you need, and run as many queries as you like.
🛢️ Postgres compliant. Firebolt’s SQL dialect is Postgres compliant. We offer powerful extensions for analytical workloads, such as lambda functions for array processing. For a complete reference, see the SQL reference documentation.
🛠️ Self-contained. Firebolt Core comes packaged as a single Docker image (ghcr.io/firebolt-db/firebolt-core:preview-rc) that contains everything needed to run it.
🏠 Self-hosted. You can deploy Firebolt Core anywhere you want, from your personal workstation to large on-premise clusters or VPCs.