Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has been around since 2006. Most use this scalable, cloud-based service for archiving and backing up data. Within 10 years of its birth, S3 stored over 2 trillion objects, each up to 5 terabytes in size. Enterprises value their data as something worth preserving. But much of this data lies inert, in “cold” data lakes, unavailable for analysis. Also called “dark data”, it can hold key insights for enterprises.

Redshift’s JOIN clause is perhaps the second most important clause after SELECT clause, and it is used even more ubiquitously, considering how interconnected a typical application database’s tables are. Due to that connectivity between datasets, data developers require many joins to collect and process all the data points involved in most use cases. Unfortunately, as the number of tables you’re joining in grows, so does the sloth of your query.

PostgreSQL is the preferred platform of millions of developers around the world. The open-source tool is one of the most powerful databases on the planet, with the ability to handle sophisticated analytical workloads and high levels of concurrency. That makes PostgreSQL (also called Postgres) a popular DB for scientific research and AI/ML projects. It’s also a popular production database for data-driven companies in every industry. But no database is perfect.

In this guide, we’ll go over the Redshift COPY command, how it can be used to import data into your Redshift database, its syntax, and a few troubles you may run into.

Amazon Redshift makes it easier to uncover transformative insights from big data. Analytical queries that once took hours can now run in seconds. Redshift allows businesses to make data-driven decisions faster, which in turn unlocks greater growth and success. For a CTO, full-stack engineer, or systems architect, the question isn’t so much what is possible with Amazon Redshift, but how. How do you ensure optimal, consistent runtimes on analytical queries and reports?

While Redshift is arguably the best data warehouse on the market, it can come with a hefty price tag. We’ve created this Redshift pricing guide to help you evaluate Redshift cheaply, create a budget for full implementation, and optimize your Redshift set up so that you’re getting the most bang for your data buck. Ready to get started? Think of this blog post as a “choose your own adventure” guide.

When choosing any SaaS application, you must start with a clear understanding of your business requirements. Then ask yourself the following questions: Develop a framework for data processing requirements, and you'll find a data warehouse solution that provides the right amount of power, functionality, and high performance for data analytics. Keep the answers to these questions in mind when reading through this article.

Redshift has had the highest market share of any RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) solution for a number of years. Companies around the world use it to store and mine deeper insights from data. What is Redshift exactly, and what are the benefits that have given it the top ranking for companies around the world?

As the amount of big data generated every year grows exponentially, successful enterprises have ditched on-premise solutions for the cloud. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of big data analytics, where virtual environments offer more scope and scalability than in-house architecture. Data-driven companies crave cloud databases because of the copious amount of data they collect, process, share and analyze every single day.

For Cloudera ensuring data security is critical because we have large customers in highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare, where security is paramount. Also, for other industries like retail, telecom or public sector that deal with large amounts of customer data and operate multi-tenant environments, sometimes with end users who are outside of their company, securing all the data may be a very time intensive process.