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    Hologres:Comparison of Serverless and virtual warehouse instances

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    Hologres:Comparison of Serverless and virtual warehouse instances

    Last Updated:Feb 04, 2026

    Hologres provides dedicated compute resources through virtual warehouse instances and shared compute resources through Serverless instances. This topic compares these two instance types to help you select the appropriate one.

    Detailed comparison

    Comparison module

    Subkey Comparison

    Hologres virtual warehouse instance

    Hologres Serverless instance

    Supported regions

    N/A

    All regions where Hologres is available.

    For details, see the purchase page.

    China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Hong Kong), and Singapore.

    Billing method

    N/A

    • Dedicated compute resources support subscription and pay-as-you-go.

    • Serverless Computing resources are billed based on actual usage.

    • Dedicated storage resources support subscription and pay-as-you-go.

    • Serverless Computing resources are billed based on actual usage.

    • Dedicated storage resources support pay-as-you-go.

    Compute resources

    Dedicated compute resource

    Supported.

    You can split dedicated compute resources into multiple virtual warehouses for workload isolation. Virtual warehouses provide flexible scaling and throttling.

    Not supported.

    Shared compute resource (Serverless Computing)

    • Supports scheduling workloads to Serverless Computing resources for execution.

    • Supports explicit specification and automatic routing.

    All workloads run on Serverless Computing resources.

    Scaling

    • Virtual warehouses support flexible scaling, such as manual and scheduled scaling.

    • Serverless Computing provides on-demand scheduling and scaling.

    • Manual scaling is not required.

    • Serverless Computing provides on-demand scheduling and scaling.

    Storage resource

    Standard storage - locally redundant storage

    Supports storage for Hologres internal tables and index creation.

    Supports storage for Hologres internal tables and index creation.

    O&M

    Version upgrade

    Supports self-service upgrades.

    Manual operations are not typically required. Alibaba Cloud maintains the versions of Serverless instances.

    If needed, self-service upgrades are also supported.

    Throttling

    • Virtual warehouses support flexible throttling, such as manual and automatic throttling.

    • Serverless Computing uses a queuing mechanism to provide throttling.

    • Manual throttling is not required.

    • Serverless Computing uses a queuing mechanism to provide throttling.

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