Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know

Re:Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know by ceyhunkazel on Sunday September 29, 2013 @04:13PM (#6466339)

I think beside familiar PostgreSQL enviroment there is not much advantage over SAP HANA. I listed advantages of HANA on my posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466222

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Re:Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know by mtam on Sunday September 29, 2013 @05:30PM (#6466600)

Redshift is a SQL relational database for large structured data volumes, whereas Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is for non-structured data. The Redshift FAQ has more details on this topic: http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/#0120

Other than the marketing buzz from SAP, I have not seen any reputable (neutral) comparison between Hana and Redshift that includes price. I also have never met anyone that uses/run Hana that was not already an SAP ERP client, albeit the fact that SAP keeps saying Hana is the fastest-growing product in the company's history.

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Re:Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know by tonywe64 on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:42PM (#6467362)

I don't think it makes sense to compare Redshift to HANA. There is no way that HANA could scale the way ParAccel/Vertica scales within the same price range.

Besides all the marketing buzz SAP has been throwing it out there, how many companies actually use it with a decent amount of data (at least 10TB+ range)?

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