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by SpikeGronim 4874 days ago
This is optimized for bulk analysis. RDS is more optimized for low latency queries. This is because Redshift is column oriented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS .
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kevindication 4873 days ago
Yep. Redshift is based off of ParAccel. We used that DB for some really awesome large scale analytics on a previous project.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-redshift-paraccel-in-costly-appl...

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