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Amazon Redshift

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is used to modernize data analytics workloads and deliver insights into businesses. With a fully managed, AI powered, massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, Amazon Redshift drives business decision making quickly and cost effectively. Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver optimal performance at any scale.

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Awards & Recognition

Amazon Redshift won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

5 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2022

Amazon Redshift Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon Redshift?

1% Negative

2% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Data Security

Distributed Processing

Data Management

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Data Integration

Metadata Management

Real Time Capabilities

Analytics and Reporting

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Amazon Redshift Reviews

Rick A.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Amazing and well functioning product!

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Amazon Redshift stands out with its fast query performance, seamless integration with AWS services, and cost-effective storage and compute scaling, making it a powerful choice for data warehousing.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The fast query performance and scalability is for us the most favorite aspect of this product

What do you dislike most about this product?

Like I mentioned earlier, the warnings for pricing could be optimized.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We are working with the AWS stack and love Redshift. If you need a data warehousing solution and use AWS, I recommend Redshift.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Altruistic
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

balamurugan S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Perfect Data Manager

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Scalable, Relaible and trustworthy

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Analyses large amount of data in quick time

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is nothing to dislike about this product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Yes, You can go for it!

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Isioma O.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Scalable, Reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

5 /10

What differentiates Amazon Redshift from other similar products?

Scalability: Redshift’s massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture allows it to scale effortlessly, handling very large datasets efficiently, while also offering flexible pricing models (on-demand or reserved instances). Performance: It delivers fast query performance by using columnar storage, data compression, and advanced query optimization techniques.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Amazon Redshift is its performance and scalability. The massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture allows it to handle large datasets with exceptional speed, even as data grows. This, combined with auto-scaling features and integration with other AWS services, ensures that Redshift can efficiently scale to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. The ability to process complex queries quickly and at scale, without compromising performance, makes it a standout product for data warehousing.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The main drawback of Amazon Redshift is its limited native real-time streaming capabilities. While it's excellent for batch processing and querying large datasets, Redshift isn't optimized for handling real-time data ingestion natively. To achieve real-time processing, you often need to integrate it with additional services like Kinesis or Lambda, which adds complexity to the architecture and requires more configuration and maintenance.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Here are a few recommendations for someone considering Amazon Redshift: Evaluate AWS Ecosystem Compatibility: Redshift works best if your organization is already using AWS services. If you are not deeply integrated into AWS, ensure you evaluate the ecosystem benefits and potential learning curve. Understand Your Data Use Case: Redshift excels at batch processing and large-scale data analytics. If your focus is on real-time data streaming or low-latency queries, consider whether the need for additional services like Kinesis will fit into your architecture.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Cons

Vendor Friendly Policies
Vendor's Interest First

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Amazon Redshift Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

2 Since last award

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon Redshift?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Amazon Redshift Reviews

Rick A.

Amazing and well functioning product!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

balamurugan S.

Perfect Data Manager

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Isioma O.

Scalable, Reliable

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Data Security

Distributed Processing

Data Management

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Data Integration

Metadata Management

Real Time Capabilities

Analytics and Reporting

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization