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Amazon Redshift

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Luca Stephan
Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS
We are a consultancy company of 1,500 people. Those who use a sophisticated data warehouse architecture tailored to the business requirements,... Read more →
Anonymous User
Researched Amazon Redshift but chose IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud: You can store data in the cloud and use the database as a MPP server.
The organization (a customer of ours) has used it to create a sort of data hub to use as a foundation for other business applications, such as... Read more →
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Pros
"The initial setup of this solution is straightforward.""Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there.""The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good.""You can copy JSON to the column and have it analyzed using simple functions.""The most valuable features of Amazon Redshift are that its fast and efficient. We have lots of TBs of data and it's very fast.""The most valuable feature is that the solution is fully embedded in the AWS stack.""The solution's flexibility is its most valuable feature. It's also easy to scale and has relatively painless pricing.""Easy to build out our snowflake design and load data."

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"The way that it scales will help a lot of customers that are stuck with Netezza boxes that can't grow any larger.​""The performance is okay as long as the volume of queries is not too high.""It will be MPP, so performance should improve."

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Cons
"They should provide a better way to work with interim data in a structured way than to store it in parquet files locally.""Amazon should provide more cloud-native tools that can integrate with Redshift like Microsoft's development tools for Azure.""It takes a lot of time to ingest and update the data.""This solution lacks integration with non-AWS sources.""It would be nice if we could turn off an instance. However, it would retain the instance in history, thus allowing us to restart without beginning from scratch.""Should be made available across zones, like other Multi-AZ solutions.""Improvement could be made in the area of streaming data.""In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic."

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"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either.""Right now, we are implementing on ESX VMware 6.0. Support for this platform is poor. Also, one of the backup/recovery options is broken and IBM is not addressing the issue.""Tech support for dashDB is awful. We usually have tickets open for three to four weeks.""Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Redshift is very cost effective for a cloud based solution if you need to scale it a lot. For smaller data sizes, I would think about using other products."
  • "If you want a fixed price, an to not worry about every query, but you need to manage your nodes personally, use Redshift."
  • "BI is sold to our customer base as a part of the initial sales bundle. A customer may elect to opt for a white labeled site for an up-charge."
  • "One of my customers went with Google Big Query over Redshift because it was significantly cheaper for their project."
  • "Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive."
  • "It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20."
  • "The best part about this solution is the cost."
  • "The part that I like best is that you only pay for what you are using."

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  • "If your going to go with warehouse DB/dashDB, use the cloud or Sailfish version."

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    Questions from the Community
    How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
    Top Answer:Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different… more »
    What do you like most about Amazon Redshift?
    Top Answer:Redshift Spectrum is the most valuable feature.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?
    Top Answer:The product is quite expensive.
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    What advice do you have for others considering IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud?
    Top Answer:Organizations of all sizes, especially those who are in need of powerful and elastic cloud data warehouse solutions that can help administrators maximize the efficiency of their data-based operations… more »
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    Overview

    What is Amazon Redshift?

    Amazon Redshift is a fully administered, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service. Users are able to begin with a minimal amount of gigabytes of data and can easily scale up to a petabyte or more as needed. This will enable them to utilize their own data to develop new intuitions on how to improve business processes and client relations.

    Initially, users start to develop a data warehouse by initiating what is called an Amazon Redshift cluster or a set of nodes. Once the cluster has been provisioned, users can seamlessly upload data sets, and then begin to perform data analysis queries. Amazon Redshift delivers super-fast query performance, regardless of size, utilizing the exact SQL-based tools and BI applications that most users are already working with today.

    The Amazon Redshift service performs all of the work of setting up, operating, and scaling a data warehouse. These tasks include provisioning capacity, monitoring and backing up the cluster, and applying patches and upgrades to the Amazon Redshift engine.

    Amazon Redshift Functionalities

    Amazon Redshift has many valuable key functionalities. Some of its most useful functionalities include:

    • Cluster administration: The Amazon Redshift cluster is a group of nodes that contains a leader node and one (or more) compute node(s). The compute nodes needed are dependent on the data size, amount of queries needed, and the query execution functionality desired.
    • Cluster snapshots: Snapshots are backups of a cluster from an exact point in time. Amazon Redshift offers two types of snapshots: manual and automated. Amazon will store these snapshots internally in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) utilizing an SSL connection. Whenever a Snapshot restore is needed, Amazon Redshift will create a new cluster and will import data from the snapshot as directed. 
    • Cluster access: Amazon Redshift provides several intuitive features to help define connectivity rules, encrypt data and connections, and control the overall access of your cluster.
    • IAM credentials and AWS accounts: The Amazon Redshift cluster is only accessible by the AWS account that created the cluster. This automatically secures the cluster and keeps it safe. Inside the AWS account, users access the AWS Identity and IAM protocol to create additional user accounts and manage permissions, granting specified users the desired access needed to control cluster performance.
    • Encryption: Users have the option to choose to encrypt the clusters for additional added security once the cluster is provisioned. When encryption is enabled, Amazon Redshift will store all the data in user-created tables in a secure encrypted format. To manage Amazon Redshift encryption keys, users will access AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

    Reviews from Real Users

    “Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there.” - Kundan A., Senior Consultant at Dynamic Elements AS

    “With the cloud version whenever you want to deploy, you can scale up, and down, and it has a data warehousing capability. Redshift has many features. They have enriched and elaborate documentation that is helpful.”- Aishwarya K., Solution Architect at Capgemini

    IBM dashDB family offers private and public cloud database solutions for transactional and analytic workloads, with IBM fully managed or client managed options with a Common SQL engine across all deployment options.

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    Financial Services Firm9%
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    Large Enterprise37%
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    Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 58 reviews while IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is ranked 15th in Cloud Data Warehouse. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud writes "The "prefetch" feature anticipates needed data and keeps it available. BLU acceleration determines what data is unqualified for analysis and skips it". Amazon Redshift is most compared with AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Vertica, Teradata and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is most compared with IBM Db2 Warehouse, IBM Netezza Performance Server, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Snowflake.

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