Category: Database

This post was last reviewed and updated July, 2022 with updates in Athena federation connector. If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use SAP HANA as your transactional data store, you may need to join the data in your data lake with SAP HANA in the cloud, SAP HANA […]

Today’s modern applications use multiple purpose-built database engines, including relational, key-value, document, and in-memory databases. This purpose-built approach improves the way applications use data by providing better performance and reducing cost. However, the approach raises some challenges for data teams that need to provide a holistic view on top of these database engines, and especially […]

This is the second post in a multi-part series. We’re excited to shared dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and potentially reduce your overall cost to migrate to Amazon Redshift. Check out all posts in this series: Accelerate your data […]

If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use Teradata as your transactional data store, you may need to join the data in your data lake with Teradata in the cloud, Teradata running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or with an on-premises Teradata database, for example to build […]

This post was last reviewed and updated July, 2022 with updates in Athena federation connector. If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use Snowflake as your data warehouse solution, you may need to join your data in your data lake with Snowflake. For example, you may want to build […]

With AWS Glue DataBrew, data analysts and data scientists can easily access and visually explore any amount of data across their organization directly from their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, Amazon Redshift data warehouse, or Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) databases. You can choose from over 250 built-in […]

This post was last reviewed and updated July, 2022 with updates in Athena federation connector. If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use Oracle as your transactional data store, you may need to join the data in your data lake with Oracle on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Oracle running on Amazon […]

You can build data lakes with millions of objects on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use AWS native analytics and machine learning (ML) services to process, analyze, and extract business insights. You can use a combination of our purpose-built databases and analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Amazon Redshift as […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Search engines provide the means to retrieve relevant content from a collection of content. However, this can be challenging if certain exact words aren’t entered. You need to find the right item from a catalog of products, or the correct […]

With the new SUPER data type and the PartiQL language, Amazon Redshift expands data warehouse capabilities to natively ingest, store, transform, and analyze semi-structured data. Semi-structured data (such as weblogs and sensor data) fall under the category of data that doesn’t conform to a rigid schema expected in relational databases. It often contain complex values […]