High level overview of Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a database, but also an analytics engine.

So Redshift is based on the PostgreSQL technology, but instead of PostgreSQL, it's not used for online transaction processing.

It's actually an all-app type of database which means online analytical processing (OLAP)and it's used for analytics and data warehousing.

So it has a 10X better performance than any other data warehouses out there and it scales to petabytes and petabytes of data.

So the idea is that you …

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