DBMS > Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift System Properties

Please select another system to compare it with Amazon Redshift.

Our visitors often compare Amazon Redshift with Snowflake, Teradata and OpenSearch.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	14.97
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Initial release

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Increased popularity for consuming DBMS services out of the cloud
2 October 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Powering global payout intelligence: How MassPay uses Amazon Redshift Serverless and zero-ETL to drive deeper analytics.
2 June 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Empower financial analytics by creating structured knowledge bases using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Redshift
20 May 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Access Amazon Redshift Managed Storage tables through Apache Spark on AWS Glue and Amazon EMR using Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
15 May 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Simplify enterprise data access using the Amazon Redshift integration with Amazon S3 Access Grants
16 May 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Recap of Amazon Redshift key product announcements in 2024
17 December 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

provided by Google News

Share this page