Redshift

9 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2015 by Bob Muglia · across every show →

Everything said about Redshift, oldest first

Apr 20, 2015 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Muglia: Snowflake delivers better price performance than Amazon Redshift
“We were even actually found ourselves to be more price performance Than other cloud solutions like Redshift.”
Bob Muglia Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 16:32 Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Apr 20, 2015 negative
Assertion Supported
Muglia: Dynamic compute scaling is impossible with Amazon Redshift
“In fact, it's possible to change the size dynamically on the fly based on the kinds of queries you're running. And none of that is possible with a traditional data warehouse running on premises or even a traditional data warehouse like Redshift running within,…”
Bob Muglia Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 7:04 Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 30, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Instacart's data stack relies on Postgres, AWS Redshift, Python, and R
“All of our production data is in Postgres, and we will read from the secondaries in AWS. We push all of the Postgres data into Redshift and do a lot of more intensive batch computations off of Redshift. The data science teams are using either Python or R we do…”
Jeremy Stanley Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 17:10 Making On-Demand Delivery Profitable // Jeremy Stanley, Instacart (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
May 24, 2017
Disclosure
Cazena selected Redshift, Greenplum, Cloudera, and RStudio for its data platform
“We picked Redshift and Greenplum for SQL. We picked Cloudetta for Hadoop and Spark. We've added RStudio for data science.”
Prat Moghe May 24, 2017 ▶ 13:57 Big Data as a Service // Prat Moghe, Cazena (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Nov 13, 2019 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Elsamadisi: Redshift, Snowflake, and BigQuery perform identically on long tables
“The speed improvement on Redshift and versus Snowflake versus BigQuery becomes interchangeable. Because what they handle is for those edge cases, we have like a bunch of, like Snowflake is really good at a bunch of small tables everywhere trying to load a memo…”
Ahmed Elsamadisi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 18:26 How to Answer Data Questions Without Being Miserable // Ahmed Elsamadisi, Narrator (Data Driven NYC)
Sep 18, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Fraser: Amazon Redshift was the first cheap, fast data warehouse
“Redshift was incredibly important because it was, it came out in 2013. It was in the AWS console. It wasn't the first really good fast data warehouse, but it was the first one that was cheap.”
George Fraser Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 5:09 Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Oct 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cloud data warehouses enabled modern multi-tool data architectures
“Architectures like this really have only become possible with the rise of folks like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, and this idea that as a data practitioner, I can have infinite compute at the kind of tips of my fingers without having to go outsid…”
Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 2:20 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
Jun 13, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
ClickHouse sees demand to migrate workloads off Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift
“In the cloud data warehouse market, to answer your question specifically around Snowflake, we do see demand for customers to migrate off of technologies like BigQuery and Redshift, and Snowflake either for Cost or performance or both.”
Aaron Katz Jun 13, 2024 ▶ 25:48 How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
Jan 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ben Rogojan is not a fan of Amazon Redshift
“Not a big Redshift fan.”
Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 43:14 Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
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