Amazon Redshift — An intro

A brief introduction to Amazon Redshift architecture & its features

Amazon Redshift is a column-oriented massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse designed for the cloud. The system is built on top of ParAccel (a fork of PostgreSQL).

Shared-nothing architecture with managed storage.

Salient features of Redshift:

• Shared-disk / Disaggregated storage
• Push-based vectorized query processing