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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)

Loading data from Amazon S3 using COPY

Amazon Redshift is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports a number of data model structures, including dimensional, denormalized, and aggregate (rollup) structures. This makes it optimal for analytics.

In this recipe, we will set up two separate sample datasets in Amazon Redshift that are publicly available:

For loading the datasets, we will use the COPY command, which allows data to be copied from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift. This is the recommend approach for loading large amounts of data.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need to do the following:

  • Deploy an Amazon Redshift cluster in AWS region eu-west-1.
  • Create Amazon Redshift cluster master user...