Amazon Redshift best practices for designing tables

As you plan your database, certain key table design decisions heavily influence overall query performance. These design choices also have a significant effect on storage requirements, which in turn affects query performance by reducing the number of I/O operations and minimizing the memory required to process queries.

In this section, you can find a summary of the most important design decisions and best practices for optimizing query performance. Automatic table optimization provides more detailed explanations and examples of table design options.