AWS acquired the underlying tech for Redshift from ParAccel. The former ParAccel CTO is actually on our team. I wrote a long answer on Quora on that topic: ht

AWS acquired the underlying tech for Redshift from ParAccel. The former ParAccel CTO is actually on our team. I wrote a long answer on Quora on that topic: 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...