User:JSchrum1/Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product which forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services. The name means to shift away from Oracle, red being an allusion to Oracle, whose corporate color is red and is informally referred to as "Big Red." It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquired by Actian), to handle large scale data sets and database migrations. Redshift differs from Amazon's other hosted database offering, Amazon RDS, in its ability to handle analytic workloads on big data data sets stored by a column-oriented DBMS principle. Redshift allows up to 4 petabytes of data on a cluster compared to Amazon RDS's maximum database size of 16TB.

Features
Amazon Redshift is based on an older version of PostgreSQL 8.0.2, and Redshift has made changes to that version. The service can handle connections from most other applications using ODBC and JDBC connections.

Redshift uses parallel-processing and compression to decrease command execution time. This allows Redshift to perform operations on billions of rows at once. This also makes Redshift useful for storing and analyzing large quantities of data from logs or live feeds through a source such as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.

Amazon offers a tool, known as AWS Database Migration Service, which helps to automate internal and external database transfers to make moving to Amazon from another platform easier.

Users and Partnerships
Some companies using Redshift include McDonald's, Pfizer, Fox Corporation, NTT Docomo, Intuit, Yelp, Duolingo, and others. One common reason for use among these customers is real-time data analytics, which Redshift can handle more efficiently than Amazon's other database offerings.

Amazon has listed a number of business intelligence software proprietors as partners and tested tools in their "APN Partner" program, including Actian, Actuate Corporation, Alteryx, Dundas Data Visualization, IBM Cognos, InetSoft, Infor, Logi Analytics, Looker (company), MicroStrategy, Pentaho, Qlik, SiSense, Tableau Software, and  Yellowfin. Partner companies providing data integration tools include Informatica and SnapLogic. System integration and consulting partners include Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini and DXC Technology.

Timeline
An initial preview beta was released in November 2012.

A full release was made available on February 15, 2013.

According to Cloud Data Warehouse report published by Forrester in Q4 2018, Amazon Redshift has the largest Cloud data warehouse deployments, with more than 6,500 deployments..

As of October of 2020, over 300,000 external databases have been moved into one of Amazon's databases, including Redshift.