<Tr> <Th> License </Th> <Td> Proprietary </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> aws.amazon.com/redshift/ </Td> </Tr> <P> Amazon Redshift is an Internet hosting service and data warehouse product announced in November 2012 which forms part of the larger cloud - computing platform Amazon Web Services . It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data - warehouse company ParAccel (later acquired by Actian), to handle large scale data sets and database migrations . Redshift differs from Amazon's other hosted database offering, Amazon RDS, in its ability to handle analytics workloads on big data data sets stored by a column - oriented DBMS principle . </P> <P> Amazon Redshift is based on PostgreSQL 8.0. 2 . PostgreSQL 9. x.x includes features not supported in Amazon Redshift . In addition, there are important differences between Amazon Redshift SQL and PostgreSQL 8.0. 2 . PostgreSQL 8.0. 2 was released in 2005 and PostgreSQL has seen massive development since then . Many PostgreSQL features are not supported . An initial preview beta was released on November 2012 and a full release was made available on February 15, 2013 . The service can handle connections from most other applications using ODBC and JDBC connections . </P>

Amazon's data warehousing service is called redshift