The evolution of Amazon Redshift (extended abstract)

Summary: Traces Redshift’s evolution from managed, columnar MPP warehousing to exabyte-scale cloud analytics. Highlights innovations including managed storage, AQUA, vectorization/code generation, elastic and concurrency scaling, ML optimization, data sharing, and AWS integrations. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12708
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 7.2840127e-05
Overall Rank: 3,585 | 75.41%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476391

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ippokratis Pandis (Amazon)

BibTeX Citation

@article{pandis_vldb21,
        title = {{The evolution of Amazon Redshift (extended abstract)}},
        author = {Pandis, Ippokratis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3162--3163},
        doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476391},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476391},
        year = {2021}
}

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4,103	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	6.8993506e-05
4,785	Data-Sharing Markets: Model, Protocol, and Algorithms to Incentivize the Formation of Data-Sharing Consortia	2023	SIGMOD	6.5084717e-05
5,097	Cloud-Native Transactions and Analytics in SingleStore	2022	SIGMOD	6.3652447e-05
7,285	Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning	2025	CIDR	5.6559604e-05
7,341	Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases	2024	SIGMOD	5.6390976e-05
7,560	Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools	2023	SIGMOD	5.5984517e-05
7,901	Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities	2022	VLDB	5.5185913e-05
9,536	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	5.2529727e-05
10,491	Reducing Tail Latency in Storage-Disaggregated Database Systems	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,509	FlatStor: An Efficient Embedded-Index Based Columnar Data Layout for Multimodal Data Workloads	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,283	A Flexible Forecasting Stack	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
66	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00038561587
73	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00037333356
237	Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses	2015	SIGMOD	0.0002369895
520	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017136828
1,925	POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse	2020	VLDB	9.4764398e-05

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