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I thought Redshift was built completely from scratch, and only looks like Postgres at the wire protocol level? Also, it would be really nice if I could do both

I thought Redshift was built completely from scratch, and only looks like Postgres at the wire protocol level? Also, it would be really nice if I could do both my transactions and my analytics in the same box. Then ETL is basically just maintaining a materialized view.

scapecast 9y ago
Amazon built Redshift by using technology from Paraccel. Paraccel was built on Postgres. See a Quora answer I wrote: https://www.quora.com/Amazon-redshift-uses-Actians-ParaAccel-MPP-database-so-what-does-Amazon-redshift-team-work-on-Only-integrating-ParaAccel-in-amazon-ecosystem-Do-some-people-from-Redshift-team-work-on-ParaAccel-database-as-well https://www.quora.com/Amazon-redshift-uses-Actians-ParaAccel...