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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
5021
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00023604384
Overall Rank
424 | 97.06%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2742795

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167 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00039408116
730 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00017443615
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2,264 Manu: A Cloud Native Vector Database Management System 2022 VLDB 9.1587362e-05
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2,553 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.5522099e-05
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3,344 F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale 2018 VLDB 7.1944106e-05
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3,642 BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes 2023 SIGMOD 6.8876984e-05
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3,753 Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs 2019 VLDB 6.7850001e-05
3,772 Flexible Rule-Based Decomposition and Metadata Independence in Modin: A Parallel Dataframe System 2022 VLDB 6.7736479e-05
3,838 The evolution of Amazon Redshift (extended abstract) 2021 VLDB 6.7113252e-05
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4,010 Adore: Differentially Oblivious Relational Database Operators 2023 VLDB 6.5355058e-05
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4,416 Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign 2017 VLDB 6.1963721e-05
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6,154 PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba 2023 SIGMOD 5.1795738e-05
6,274 Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly 2022 SIGMOD 5.1268676e-05
6,655 Fast and Effective Distribution-Key Recommendation for Amazon Redshift 2020 VLDB 4.9693109e-05
6,671 Incorporating Super-Operators in Big-Data Query Optimizers 2020 VLDB 4.9625353e-05
6,683 Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale 2024 VLDB 4.9593505e-05
6,971 Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses 2024 SIGMOD 4.8738633e-05
7,049 Statisticum: Data Statistics Management in SAP HANA 2017 VLDB 4.8454978e-05
7,123 Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes 2024 CIDR 4.8197122e-05
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7,465 Yannakakis+: Practical Acyclic Query Evaluation with Theoretical Guarantees 2025 SIGMOD 4.7186055e-05
7,470 Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning 2025 CIDR 4.7159125e-05
7,820 Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning 2023 CIDR 4.6394471e-05
7,866 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 4.6282779e-05
7,907 Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses 2024 VLDB 4.6161532e-05
8,174 Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses 2022 VLDB 4.5638044e-05
8,341 Hierarchical Residual Encoding for Multiresolution Time Series Compression 2023 SIGMOD 4.5373173e-05
8,357 Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools 2023 SIGMOD 4.5325029e-05
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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
20 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086163998
35 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00076209479
59 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.0006445664
87 Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine 2013 SIGMOD 0.00052844656
132 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00043697853
217 A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching 1984 PODS 0.00033533621
367 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00025518228
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