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Amazon Redshift Cookbook

You're reading from   Amazon Redshift Cookbook Recipes for building modern data warehousing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569683
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shruti Worlikar Shruti Worlikar
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Harshida Patel Harshida Patel
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Thiyagarajan Arumugam Thiyagarajan Arumugam
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Amazon Redshift 2. Chapter 2: Data Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Loading and Unloading Data 4. Chapter 4: Data Pipelines 5. Chapter 5: Scalable Data Orchestration for Automation 6. Chapter 6: Data Authorization and Security 7. Chapter 7: Performance Optimization 8. Chapter 8: Cost Optimization 9. Chapter 9: Lake House Architecture 10. Chapter 10: Extending Redshift's Capabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Managing column compression

Amazon Redshift's columnar architecture stores data columns upon columns on disk. Analytical queries select a subset of the columns and perform aggregation on millions to billions of records. The columnar architecture reduces the I/O by selecting a subset of the columns, thus improving query performance. When data is ingested into the Amazon Redshift table, it provides three to four times compression. This further reduces the storage footprint, which, in turn, reduces I/O and hence improves query performance. Reducing the storage footprint also saves you money. Amazon Redshift Advisor provides recommendations for compressing any uncompressed tables.

In this recipe, you will learn how Amazon Redshift automatically applies compression to new and existing tables. You will also learn how column-level compression can be modified for existing columns.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the following:

  • An IAM user with access...
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