Amazon Redshift

“Before Amazon Redshift, in order to get access to that class of performance, you had to be a large enterprise because the only products that were sold with that type of performance were called data warehouse appliances, Netezza, Vertica, Teradata, et cetera. A…”

“Amazon Redshift is actually a fork of Postgres eight.”

“Because the clouds themselves, you look at Redshift in the buyer's mind has really fallen behind in the next generation cloud data warehouse.”

“I did diligence on snowflakes B and told whoever asked me to pass. Cause I'm like redshift exists. Like AWS is not asleep at the wheel.”

“At year two to three, AWS released new product called Amazon Redshift, which is the cloud data warehouse product at AWS reInvent.”

“Those set of technologies have really been completely rebuilt. I think over the past seven years, really, it was like the introduction of Amazon redshift with In, in, in, that sparked kind of a rewrite of all of the products in that space.”

“And so Amazon Redshift in, for the first time released an OLAP database, a database designed for large scale query processing that you could purchase for 160 dollars a month.”

“Redshift and later Google BigQuery and companies like Snowflake innovated on this model, and basically, if you think about that data warehouse as being, like, in the middle of the stack of what RJ Metrics was, it broke our stack right in half, because No one w…”

“It turns out the word redshift is pretty not common in job descriptions. And so if you scrape indeed, for example, you can kind of figure out which companies are using it. So we have scrapers that go out to job boards and then they collect company names. And t…”

“We do compete with Redshift. I think Amazon has a 150 different services in their portfolio. We compete with maybe Three, depending on whether you want to include Athena and Spectrum in that.”

“Virtually all of our customers have looked at Redshift. And quite a few of our customers are converted off of it, because we're very fundamentally different than they are.”

“At Pinterest we use Redshift. We're big users of Amazon's Redshift product. That's been a pretty substantial game changer for us moving away from Hive.”