Book Image

Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By : Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel
Book Image

Amazon Redshift Cookbook

By: Shruti Worlikar, Thiyagarajan Arumugam, Harshida Patel

Overview of this book

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale AWS cloud data warehousing service. It enables you to build new data warehouse workloads on AWS and migrate on-premises traditional data warehousing platforms to Redshift. This book on Amazon Redshift starts by focusing on Redshift architecture, showing you how to perform database administration tasks on Redshift. You'll then learn how to optimize your data warehouse to quickly execute complex analytic queries against very large datasets. Because of the massive amount of data involved in data warehousing, designing your database for analytical processing lets you take full advantage of Redshift's columnar architecture and managed services. As you advance, you’ll discover how to deploy fully automated and highly scalable extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, which help minimize the operational efforts that you have to invest in managing regular ETL pipelines and ensure the timely and accurate refreshing of your data warehouse. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of Redshift use cases, data ingestion, data management, security, and scaling so that you can build a scalable data warehouse platform. By the end of this Redshift book, you'll be able to implement a Redshift-based data analytics solution and have understood the best practice solutions to commonly faced problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service in Amazon Web Services (AWS). You can query all your data, which can scale from gigabytes to petabytes, using SQL. Amazon Redshift integrates into the data lake solution though the lake house architecture, allowing you access all the structured and semi-structured data in one place. Each Amazon Redshift data warehouse is hosted as a cluster (a group of servers or nodes) that consists of one leader node and a collection of one or more compute nodes. Each cluster is a single tenant environment (which can be scaled to a multi-tenant architecture using data sharing), and every node has its own dedicated CPU, memory, and attached disk storage that varies based on the node's type.

This chapter will walk you through the process of creating a sample Amazon Redshift cluster and connecting to it from different clients.

The following recipes will be discussed in this chapter:

...