Technical talks and explainers about how Firebolt works
Multithreaded Execution in Firebolt
Learn how Firebolt scales up by leveraging multithreading across all of the available CPU cores.
Zero-copy Clone
Firebolt allows you to perform a pure metadata operation to clone tables in milliseconds. It works without duplicating data or requiring lengthy ingestion. Learn how that works and how to use it.
Primary Indexing
Primary indexes are an essential part of speeding up your analytics. See how they work in Firebolt and how you can best leverage them.
Distributed Query Processing
When you add more nodes to your Firebolt cluster, it takes some shuffling to ensure correct results. Learn about the shuffle operator and see how Firebolt scales out.
Subresult Reuse
Learn about how Firebolt caches and reuses intermediate query results to save on computation and speed up your queries.
How-to Videos
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Multithreaded Execution in Firebolt
Ingestion Wizard
Firebolt’s "Load data” wizard simplifies data onboarding from S3 with support for Parquet, CSV file formats.
How to use "COPY FROM"
Get insights into how Firebolt’s “COPY FROM” command can be used to ingest data from CSV and PARQUET formats with built-in schema inference.
Firebolt UI
Get a detailed walkthrough of Firebolt's user-friendly interface, designed to simplify data management and analysis, all with the ease of SQL.
How do I create a database
Get started with Firebolt by learning how to create and manage databases effortlessly. This video explains the simple steps to create a database using the Firebolt UI or through SQL commands.
Ingestion
Firebolt makes data ingestion seamless and efficient. Get insights into various methods of ingesting data into Firebolt, from using the UI to executing SQL commands.
What is an Engine
Engines are at the core of Firebolt’s high-performance data platform. Get a comprehensive overview of what an engine is, how it works, and why it’s critical for your data strategy.
Online Upgrades
Learn how Firebolt's online upgrade process is designed to keep your engines up-to-date without interrupting your operations for your mission-critical workloads.
Elasticity at Scale
Explore the flexibility of Firebolt's compute resources, from selecting the right node size (small, medium, large, extra-large) to scaling engines up or out to meet your query demands.