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Amazon Redshift Overview

What is Amazon Redshift?

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.

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Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools.


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Recent Amazon Redshift Reviews

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Vijay K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Amazon Redshift Review"
Amazon Redshift is one of the best data warehouse platforms provided by AWS. It uses SQL to analyze structured, semi-structured, and unstructure...
Happy M.
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Happy M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A complete data warehouse solution with scalability"
It provides easy to use and implement yet very powerful columns based data solution that helps in faster query performance. Also cross database ana...
matias d.
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matias d.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great data warehouse solution"
It has a great pay as you go pricing which is useful for small companies and has amazing performance with little issues.
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Amazon Redshift Demo - Amazon Redshift Setup
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Ravi B.
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

User friendly.

Optimised solutions provided.

Redundancy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Less campaigns of awareness of this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very good ETL and database structure & easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

*Redshift uses the columnar data storage along with various data compression techniques and combined with result caching enhances the performance by multi folds.

*Redshift also has massive parallel processing which distribute SQL operations and parallelize them.

*Redshift spectrum is a great solution for working with massive datasets and data lakes via redshidt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

*Redshift does not support Stored procedures.

*Higher price compare to other solutions in the same sector.

* It would help if user interface can be more developer friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were spending considerable amount of resources on maintenance with our previous vendor but it was tedious and performance was also not satisfactory.

Now we have a very performant and scalable solution with redshift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

The salient feature of Amazon redshift is that it enables us to access shared databases within the organization. Easy to use DDL and DML queries. The in-built functions are easy to use and help significantly in the faster execution of queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

As of now, I have nothing to complain about Amazon Redshift. One of the best products that Amazon has to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been using Redshift for data analysis and database storage. It helps us to store data in various RDS and helps to share data within the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

it is RDBMS database and is proven to handle huge amounts of data at scale. On the other hand, it's very handy for me to handle reporting tasks at a time when I had very little cloud experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

It is not serverless and it costs huge amounts of money to maintain the database. It's not a great tool for start-up to performing data analytics tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using redshift to perform critical data reporting tasks, as well as handling ad-hoc queries. The best thing is that Redshift is well integrated with many 3rd party solutions, such as powerbi so that we can save a lot of development time to make something happen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kallesha C.
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

√ Most Powerful analytical Darawarehoude DB cluster

√it comes with many options like memeory optimised, storage optimised

✓You can scale up/down cluster based on increasing data

✓ it's integrated with S3, you can S3 spectrum for analysing data directly on S3, you can join the tables on Redshift

✓Redshift introduced serverless, you don't need to worry about provising of cluster

✓Most efficient for PB data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

✓ sometimes internal Redshift issue makes cluster down

✓ when you delete records, records are just marked for delete, you need run vaccum for delete records completely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using Redshift & Spectrum maintaing pb Data effectively,

Reduced ETL load from 14 hours to 6 hours Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

It's widely adopted, ease of administration, ideal for data lakes, querying is very easy, storage is columnar, security is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

In terms of disadvantages it's not a multi cloud solution, pricing is more,it's not a Serverless architecture, performance, concurrent execution, master node plays important role. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

Please go ahead with the Amazon redshift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data processing and data collection is the main problem of any business

This is taken care by Redshift. In terms of benefits redshift is very useful for big data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Venkatesh M.
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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Integration with ML tools is one of the most useful features to do forecast and predicting of large data and pricing is also good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Nothing everything is very good and performance is also better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

It contains lots of features better to explore every feature one by one and try them according to your needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working on a forecast related data warehouse project using ML Tools and also for analyzing the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

As it is cloud based DW, no need to maintain the data centre physically at our place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Some time query response is slow as it provides pagination output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We uad used it as cloud DW to store the large amount of data without any restriction of data size. It xan be scale up very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

* fast performance,

*excellent reliability

*outstanding scalability can scale up from few GB to TB

*easy to set up and work

*high security option

*Good analytical tool easy to integrate with s3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

*Server down due to some internal issues which will be difficult to identify

*Pricing is more compare to similar warehouse tool

*No good useriterface.

*Faced memory and timeout problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Redshift:

A scalable application that gives an extremely good performance. easy to set up, use and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have data coming from different ERPs which we are storing in a centralized warehouse. Data size is in few TB and also we have built data mart and business-critical reports on top of i. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

* Very scalable application

* Very easy to set up and learn

* Performance is at peak

* Good security features

* Easy to integrate with s3

* Very good tool for data lake and data mart and large datawarehouse also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

* some time cluster down due to some internal redshirt issue and have enoouter time out issues

*Can make it more sql friendly user interface

* Price is more compared similar products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have centralized data warehouse and data lake in redshift very data is in few TB. We had lot of performance issue with previous vendor ( i.e oracle). now we are seeing Massive performance bost and easy to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.