Tag: HAQM Redshift

Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings (Translated into Japanese) Part 5: Table Data Durability In part 4 of this blog series, I’ll be discussing when and when not to apply column encoding for compression, methods for determining ideal […]

  Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys (Translated into Japanese) Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability In this installment, I’ll cover different sort key options, when to use sort keys, and how to identify the most optimal sort key […]

  Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys (Translated into Japanese) Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability The first table and column properties we discuss in this blog series are table distribution styles (DISTSTYLE) and distribution keys (DISTKEY). This blog […]

  Part 1: Preamble, Prerequisites, and Prioritization (Translated into Japanese) Part 2: Distribution Styles and Distribution Keys Part 3: Compound and Interleaved Sort Keys Part 4: Compression Encodings Part 5: Table Data Durability HAQM Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte scale, massively parallel data warehouse that offers simple operations and high performance. AWS customers use HAQM […]

In this blog post, we’ll use a real customer scenario to show you how to create a caching layer in front of HAQM Redshift using pgpool and HAQM ElastiCache.

Publishing misleading performance benchmarks is a classic old guard marketing tactic. It’s not surprising to see old guard companies (like Oracle) doing this, but we were kind of surprised to see Google take this approach, too. So, when Google presented their BigQuery vs. HAQM Redshift benchmark results at a private event in San Francisco on September 29, 2016, it piqued our interest and we decided to dig deeper.

NOTE: HAQM Redshift now supports creating an automatic snapshot schedule using the snapshot scheduler. For more information, please review this “What’s New” post. ———————————- Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS HAQM Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data […]

Tony Gibbs is a Solutions Architect with AWS (Update: This blog post has been translated into Japanese) When it comes to choosing a SQL-based database in AWS, there are many options. Sometimes it can be difficult to know which one to choose. For example, when would you use HAQM Aurora instead of HAQM RDS PostgreSQL […]

February 9, 2024: HAQM Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to HAQM Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Babu Elumalai is a Solutions Architect with AWS Organizations are generating tremendous amounts of data, and they increasingly need tools and systems that help them use this data to make decisions. The […]

Russell Nash is a Solutions Architect with AWS Have you been looking for a straightforward way to encrypt your HAQM Redshift data loads? Have you wondered how to safely manage the keys and where to perform the encryption? In this post, I will walk through a solution that meets these requirements by showing you how […]