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: h0a3b47d0b395c7a3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 7.1375005e-05
Overall Rank: 3,647 | 75.49%
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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,034	Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics	2023	VLDB	6.8393244e-05
4,828	Cloud-Native Transactions and Analytics in SingleStore	2022	SIGMOD	6.391616e-05
4,905	Data-Sharing Markets: Model, Protocol, and Algorithms to Incentivize the Formation of Data-Sharing Consortia	2023	SIGMOD	6.3624391e-05
6,986	Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools	2023	SIGMOD	5.6284421e-05
7,079	Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases	2024	SIGMOD	5.6049309e-05
7,350	Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning	2025	CIDR	5.5451228e-05
8,047	Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities	2022	VLDB	5.4006048e-05
9,706	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	5.1376763e-05
10,678	Reducing Tail Latency in Storage-Disaggregated Database Systems	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,694	FlatStor: An Efficient Embedded-Index Based Columnar Data Layout for Multimodal Data Workloads	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,607	A Flexible Forecasting Stack	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041219077
63	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00038531147
233	Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023783585
459	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017856221
1,790	POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse	2020	VLDB	9.6272006e-05

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