Redshift


Lecturearrow-up-right from Andy Pavlo about Redshift


Redshift

  • What it is: The classic Cloud Data Warehouse. It uses MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) to let you run complex SQL queries over petabytes of data.

  • Data Engineer Note: Unlike BigQuery (which is serverless by default), Redshift traditionally required you to provision "nodes" (clusters), though it now has a "Serverless" option to compete with Google.

  • Equivalents:

    • GCP: BigQuery

    • Azure: Azure Synapse Analytics


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