Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses

Summary: Redshift champions simplicity as the core differentiator for data warehouses, offering fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale MPP with easy buying, tuning, and management for analytics. Targets mass-market adoption and experimentation, not only enterprises. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5020
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00023594359
Overall Rank: 426 | 97.04%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2742795

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
736	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00017447617
1,284	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012837822
1,943	Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube	2019	VLDB	0.00010012569
2,262	Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System	2022	VLDB	9.1624446e-05
2,501	DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models	2019	SIGMOD	8.6453446e-05
2,545	POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse	2020	VLDB	8.5725413e-05
2,568	Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud	2021	VLDB	8.5239227e-05
2,613	Decomposed Bounded Floats for Fast Compression and Queries	2021	VLDB	8.4503824e-05
2,691	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	8.2909126e-05
3,152	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB	7.4711766e-05
3,355	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.1829142e-05
3,416	LeCo: Lightweight Compression via Learning Serial Correlations	2024	SIGMOD	7.1196234e-05
3,644	BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes	2023	SIGMOD	6.8854928e-05
3,737	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	6.8033227e-05
3,753	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	6.7871241e-05
3,763	Flexible Rule-Based Decomposition and Metadata Independence in Modin: A Parallel Dataframe System	2022	VLDB	6.7801795e-05
3,844	The evolution of Amazon Redshift (extended abstract)	2021	VLDB	6.7076451e-05
3,973	Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing	2019	SIGMOD	6.5758017e-05
4,036	Adore: Differentially Oblivious Relational Database Operators	2023	VLDB	6.5089579e-05
4,242	Db2 Event Store: A Purpose-Built IoT Database Engine	2020	VLDB	6.3315241e-05
4,390	LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database	2021	SIGMOD	6.2279149e-05
4,419	Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign	2017	VLDB	6.2022597e-05
4,514	An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats	2024	VLDB	6.1204636e-05
4,530	Big Metadata: When Metadata is Big Data	2021	VLDB	6.1075429e-05
4,549	Database-Agnostic Workload Management	2019	CIDR	6.0926728e-05
4,667	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	6.0116919e-05
4,670	Napa: Powering Scalable Data Warehousing with Robust Query Performance at Google	2021	VLDB	6.0104466e-05
4,812	Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications	2021	SIGMOD	5.9053048e-05
4,948	Designing an Open Framework for Query Optimization and Compilation	2022	VLDB	5.8116879e-05
5,441	Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics	2023	SIGMOD	5.5028093e-05
5,562	A Deep Dive into Common Open Formats for Analytical DBMSs	2023	VLDB	5.4331334e-05
6,170	PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba	2023	SIGMOD	5.171601e-05
6,302	Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly	2022	SIGMOD	5.1215989e-05
6,659	Fast and Effective Distribution-Key Recommendation for Amazon Redshift	2020	VLDB	4.9710856e-05
6,673	Incorporating Super-Operators in Big-Data Query Optimizers	2020	VLDB	4.966799e-05
6,972	Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses	2024	SIGMOD	4.8785237e-05
7,053	Statisticum: Data Statistics Management in SAP HANA	2017	VLDB	4.8497195e-05
7,059	Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale	2024	VLDB	4.8477825e-05
7,155	Evaluating Multi-GPU Sorting with Modern Interconnects	2022	SIGMOD	4.8149812e-05
7,161	Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes	2024	CIDR	4.813931e-05
7,467	Yannakakis+: Practical Acyclic Query Evaluation with Theoretical Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	4.7218691e-05
7,469	Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning	2025	CIDR	4.7204398e-05
7,814	Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning	2023	CIDR	4.6439001e-05
7,876	Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP	2024	VLDB	4.6298182e-05
7,907	Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses	2024	VLDB	4.6205839e-05
8,173	Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses	2022	VLDB	4.568186e-05
8,361	Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools	2023	SIGMOD	4.5368524e-05
8,373	Hierarchical Residual Encoding for Multiresolution Time Series Compression	2023	SIGMOD	4.5329467e-05
8,608	Unity Catalog: Open and Universal Governance for the Lakehouse and Beyond	2025	SIGMOD	4.4853979e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076197749
60	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00064439773
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052389723
131	Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems	2006	SIGMOD	0.0004370331
216	A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching	1984	PODS	0.00033542705
368	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.000254931

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