Redshift - it is not the destination it is journey !
December 30, 2020
Redshift - it is not the destination it is journey !
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Redshift
Cloudwalker offers analytic services for the gambling industry. The gambling industry has vast amounts of data that are high speed and variability. Our services from Redshift help gambling companies have better control of their bookmaking product, have a complete view of customers betting history, helps with detecting problematic accounts, etc.
- Redshift has concurrency scaling helps serve more customers queries
- Redshift has automatic table compression having less disc space consumed comparing to other data warehouse solutions
- With ra3 new node types we can separate storage and compute
- Having automatic vacuum delete helps having conzisent performance in cases where data variability in dwh production zone is present
- Consistent service improvements from AWS: temporary tables, null handling in joins, single row inserts, materialized views
- Frequent changes of management console look and feel
- Automatic vacuum sort doesn't work for several billion rows tables
- Disc IOPS performance monitoring excluded
- In our case Redshift is much cheaper than other solutions
1. Redshift has better compression (automated) consuming less space then competitors
2. Automated Vacuum Delete for having consistent performance
3. AWS introduced ra3 node types for simple separation of compute and storage
4. Redshift has automatic concurrency scaling, provisioning new nodes if necessary
5. Better and more native integration with s3 data lake, possible destination for AWS Kinesis Firehose
6. Transparent 'pay-as-you-go' commercial model
7. Automatic backup
2. Automated Vacuum Delete for having consistent performance
3. AWS introduced ra3 node types for simple separation of compute and storage
4. Redshift has automatic concurrency scaling, provisioning new nodes if necessary
5. Better and more native integration with s3 data lake, possible destination for AWS Kinesis Firehose
6. Transparent 'pay-as-you-go' commercial model
7. Automatic backup
Do you think Amazon Redshift delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon Redshift's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon Redshift live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon Redshift go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Redshift again?
Yes
Amazon Redshift Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |