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by glogla 1666 days ago
Two competing departments inside AWS.

Technically, Athena is based on modified Presto while Redshift is (very) heavily modified Postgres.
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the_af 1666 days ago
Competing departments and competing underlying technologies. Postgres (and therefore Redshift) is running a relational database engine under the hood.
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glogla 1666 days ago
Yes, though with ra3 storage being on S3, I think they are getting more and more similar.
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