Did you ever feel like working with Redshift is like being stuck in a never-ending queue at Starbucks during morning rush hour? Everyone’s waiting, getting cranky, and you’re hoping that your simplest request get processed before you’re next birthday!

After spending years working with various data warehousing solutions, I recently made a rather unconventional choice that I am excited to share. I switched from Amazon Redshift to DuckDB for my real-time GenAI application, and the results were eye-opening.