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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 Nete

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_...