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I'm curious what technology they are using to power it. According to the website, the technology described seems very similar to what Cloudera recently open sou

I'm curious what technology they are using to power it. According to the website, the technology described seems very similar to what Cloudera recently open sourced (Impala), which sits along side Hadoop allowing ad-hoc MPP style querying on petabytes of data. https://github.com/cloudera/impala https://github.com/cloudera/impala

jeremyjh 14y ago
I'm guessing it is quite a bit different from that. It is a relational data warehouse. It supports a Postgres protocol and API, which sounds more like what Netezza has built. In fact, I would expect Netezza to be one of the most likely companies to partner with Amazon at this kind of price-point.
- javery 14y ago
  Except Netezza is now owned by IBM.
- lazyjones 14y ago
  Other candidates: * Yahoo's Everest * Greenplum * Aster Data All mentioned here: http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/database-technology-for-large-scale-data/ http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/database-technology-... The Register wrote that Amazon's solution is a column-oriented database possibly based on Postgres, like Yahoo's: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/amazon_aws_redshift_data_warehousing/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/amazon_aws_redshift_...