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Prakash G.
PG
Prakash G.
Data Migration Specialist, Data Engineering Manager
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazon Redshift: Powerful and Scalable Data Warehousing for Seamless Analytics"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift has an easy to use and setup gives teams of all sizes access to data warehousing and analytics. It’s got robust feature and it integrates well with other AWS services to make it easy to implement and scale. Their customer support is reliable and their use frequency adds a value by using their analytics which give us important insights about our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

While powerful, Amazon Redshift can be expensive to process on a large scale with increasing amount of data. Complex joins can slow down query performance, and tuning is an expertise. In high demand environments there is limited support for unstructured data and frequent optimization can be difficult, especially for daily operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snehasish K.
SK
Snehasish K.
Founder
E-Learning
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"High-Performance Data Warehousing with Exceptional Scalability"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a game-changer, allowing us to have highly scalable and performance-enabled data warehousing for the complex project. The MPP architecture and columnar storage offer powerful query performance on the platform. Redshift also allowed us easily to integrate several AWS services, such as using S3 for data imports and Glue for ETL operations, and made our pipeline very streamlined so that data transfer and queries were decreased by many times.

With Spectrum, Redshift can handle structured as well as semi-structured data, which will allow efficient cross-database queries and productivity boost with regards to data analytics and reporting. Advanced data compression features and data distribution ensure that storage is optimally utilized while efficiently making use of and managing costs on resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Though performance and scalability of Redshift are excellent, the system is not very easy to use for optimization and query tuning for new users. Automated tools for better configuration will enable it to reach a diverse set of teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jai C.
JC
Jai C.
Software engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Reliable and Powerful Data Warehousing"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Whenever I need to manage large datasets, Amazon Redshift is my go-to tool. Its ability to handle complex queries and large volumes of data makes it essential for my work. The speed and efficiency with which it processes data are particularly impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

For someone new to AWS or cloud-based data warehousing, getting started with Redshift can be a bit tricky. The initial learning curve was steep for me, especially when it came to understanding the migration process. But with time, I found it to be an invaluable platform for analyzing complex data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shehriyar A.
SA
Shehriyar A.
Search Engine Optimization Specialist
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent product, highly recommend"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Scalable tools with real-times insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

please Pricing can be complex and unclear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Happy M.
HM
Happy M.
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A complete data warehouse solution with scalability"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

It provides easy to use and implement yet very powerful columns based data solution that helps in faster query performance. Also cross database analytics is gamechanger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

It requires time for properly optimizing and tuning queries for the db which is the downside of this solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rijul S.
RS
Rijul S.
Lead Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Okay cloud data warehouse If you are existing AWS customer"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Comes with AWS suite of SaaS extremely secure cloud data warehouse Medium level of complexity for integration and usability Customer support is Fast and efficient can be used for daily and hourly usage never shuts down, unless there is a global outage implementing can be tricky based on your existing use case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

IAM roles is very complex and not easy to integrate Slower than other cloud data warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A smooth experience with this Data Warehouse"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

The best part is the ability of its keys (distribution data keys) which enhances the performance capabilities when queries are run. It is mostly managed by AWS and quite good in distribution processing too. Huge amount of data can be stored within it with ease, seamlessly integrates with other AWS services if needed, especially storage services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

An option to search/find data would be a little helpful because it can have massive amount of data. Scalability whether up or down is restricted or to be precise, it is limited to an extent compared to other cloud providers. Even is concurrency is less compared to others with a max of 50. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
AP
Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best datawarehousing solution"
4/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

Scalability and AI capabilities are very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

Lack of cross language usage for writing code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

matias d.
MD
matias d.
CRM & Lifecycle Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great data warehouse solution"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

It has a great pay as you go pricing which is useful for small companies and has amazing performance with little issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

While Redshift is excellent for traditional data warehousing tasks, it lacks some of the more advanced analytics and machine learning features that are increasingly in demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sourabh V.
SV
Sourabh V.
Senior Data Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best for Data Warehousing"
5/5
What do you like best about Amazon Redshift?

In Redshift we can show large amount of data using AWS Data Glue Crawler service easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Redshift?

There is nothing now. It's good for my use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Amazon Redshift used for?

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Should I use with a data mart for a frontend tool that make request on it ?

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