We rely on Redshift extensively for our 3D modelling needs at our institute. We use Redshift with Cinema 4D, and it saves us days worth of time in rendering the complex 3D models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

The Maxon One educational licenses should have regionalized pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shane O.

Senior 3D Lighting & Motion Graphics Artist at Amazon

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/30/2023

"Faster Renders at High Quality"

4/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

I like that Redshift has more of a GPU-based focus while maintaining an overall holistic PBR workflow for shaders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

I think that sometimes Redshift can be tricky precisely when materializing glass objects. They tend to look a bit off on refraction despite appropriate settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bruno V.

3d Artist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/3/2022

"The fastest GPU renderer available"

5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

The integration with Cinema 4d works perfectly. The tabs can be pinned to the workspace to preview the rendering in real-time. All the properties of the materials can be modified to have a realistic texture, and it is also possible to speed up the rendering time by decreasing the exposure of the material, which is fundamental, especially in animations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

For beginners it can seem very complicated and confusing. You will have to take the time to learn about the properties of materials and how Redshift works with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redshift:

Do the trial period and you will know the real potential of Redshift. In no time you won't want to switch to another renderer! Keep in mind that this is a GPU renderer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work daily creating 3d animations and Redshift is a game-changer. Rendering speed is undoubtedly one of the big differences. With some adjustments, an animation rendering that would last 7 days can drop drastically to 2 or 3 days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mauro L.

Mechanical engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/9/2022

"Fastest GPU renderer available on the market"

5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

One of the big advantages of Redshift is the rendering time. There is certainly no other GPU renderer capable of delivering extreme quality in such a short time. Real-time visualization provides comfort and speed in the workflow. Advanced users are able to explore the true potential of Redshift by customizing each individual material property. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

For beginners it may seem very complicated, the available presets are reasonable at first look. Anyone who wants to have satisfactory results will have to learn the basic properties of materials and how Redshift works with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redshift:

Put a little effort into learning how to use the software and quickly you won't want to stop with Redshift. Especially if you intend to do any kind of 3D animation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work producing animations of mechanical parts, and one of the main points to consider when doing 3D animation is rendering time. A renderer that is fast with good quality is really a game-changer. Redshift allows me a good rendering speed, as well as being able to customize every little detail in the materials and rendering options to speed up the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Garvit G.

3D Artist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/24/2022

"Redshift is the best overall GPU render engine out there."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

The render times of redshift are way better than any other render engine when it comes to GPU rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

The biggest strength of redshift is its biggest drawback as well. It does not have the option for CPU rendering. Also, mediocre GPU hardware don't give good performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/14/2022

"Data warehouse that needs to catch up to the competition"

3/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

Provides most of what a cloud-based data warehouse should have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

Lacking features such as zero-downtime cloning functionality and proper separation of compute and storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kallesha C.

Data Enigneer - Consultant II

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/24/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Amazon Redshift Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

Parallel processing

Spectrum

Federated queries

Both server and serverless

Data distribution

Snapshots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

Sometimes cluster unavailable due to issues in AWS

WLM configuration is complicated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2021

"best cloud database"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

Ease of Use and Accessibility, Fast Scaling With Few Complications, Coquerysts Relatively Low, high security, great customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

it has some sql query limitations; tables and views are not organized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2018

"Best Data warehousing solution ever"

5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

Redshift is a fork off of Postgres and the engineers at amazon have made many improvements to scale the capabilities of Redshift to accommodate voluminous data. Redshift also works with AWS S3 to perform parallel inserts into the data warehouse tables. Redshift also allows for table optimization due to the specification of sort and distribution keys when writing the DDL of your tables. Additionally, spinning up a cluster is super simple via the aws console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

Reading the documents can take some time but it will definitely be worth your time. Finding the nitty gritty details of how certain things work is buried inside mountains of documentation and there are not many examples to draw inspirations from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/6/2018

"Redshift"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Redshift?

The power of this GPU is absolutely paramount within the industry. When you look at some of the companies that are leveraging this GPU it really shows when you look at the quality coming out from those that are not using this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redshift?

At this point I have not come across anything that I do not like about this product. I think that it performs the way it was intended and the only thing I would say on it from there is to continue enhancing it along with the technological industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.