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Amazon Redshift is not actually based in Postgres, it just supports a Postgres interface. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing
by bigtones 9y ago
Amazon Redshift is not actually based in Postgres, it just supports a Postgres interface. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data-warehouse company ParAccel which was acquired by Actian, and licenced by Amazon.
- anarazel 9y agoWhich in turn initially was based on postgres. But there indeed isn't much in common anymore...
- Ralfp 9y ago> Amazon Redshift is based on PostgreSQL 8.0.2 Same wikipedia article you are quoting ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift
- scapecast 9y agoI can confirm that Redshift is based on Postgres. And I know that straight from the source: Dave Steinhoff, one of the founders of ParAccel, is on our team. https://www.intermix.io/about-us/ https://www.intermix.io/about-us/