Pay for FBUs (Firebolt Units) consumed with second accuracy.
Start with a single node ‘S’ type engine and scale in one-node increments up to 128.
Ingestion requires a single node engine with node type S that runs for 6 minutes every hour. Node type S consumes 8 FBU.
6 min
54 min
BI workloads run at infrequent intervals with extended idle periods. We launch an engine of node type M. On average, this workload runs for 10 minutes each hour, with 5 minutes of idle time.
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5 min idle
45 min stopped
10 min
ELT workload runs on an engine with a single S node (8 FBU) for 10 minutes every hour. This ELT workload scales out to 4 S nodes (32 FBU) once a day for a period of an hour.
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The baseline engine is a 2-node cluster of S type nodes that runs 24 x 7. To address high concurrency, this engine adds another 2-node cluster from 9am - 5pm.
Cluster 2 (9am - 5pm)
Cluster 1 (24x7)
Firebolt Unit is a normalized rate of consumption, such that consumption scales linearly with the capacity of your engine across all three dimensions: type of node, number of nodes, and number of clusters; consumption is proportional to the FBU of the engine and the run time. Thanks to Firebolt’s multidimensional scaling, per-second billing, and auto-stop/start capabilities, compute consumption can be a fraction of a minute. FBU eliminates the need to keep track of individual node types, nodes, and the number of clusters. There’s no binding to specific instance types, so you are free to use pre-paid credits on any node type.
While FBUs measure consumption, the performance profile of a workload depends on the engine topology.
Each node type is billed based on a specified number of FBUs. Compute usage is charged in one-second increments. For example, an ‘M’ type node uses 16 FBUs. If this node runs for one minute, the FBU-hour consumption is calculated as follows: Consumed FBU-hours = (Node FBUs) × (1 hour / 3600 seconds) × (60 seconds) = (16/3600) × 60 = 0.27 FBU-hours.
Consumption starts when the engine endpoint is available for querying.
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Firebolt provides multidimensional scaling to help right-size workloads. Autostop and Autostart are features that help reduce costs by eliminating idle time. Firebolt also provides global visibility of consumption and costs through built-in organizational governance and account-level consumption breakdown.
Firebolt provides engine consumption and spend information in the Web UI. Additionally, granular engine-level consumption can be found via the information_schema.engine_metering_history view that details the hourly consumption of all the engines within an account. Users can also drill down into how the topology of their engines (node type, number of nodes and number of clusters) was modified over time, providing visibility into the FBU consumption of their engines.
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