Amazon Redshift is described as 'Uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale' and is a relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Amazon Redshift for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Amazon Redshift alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amazon Redshift are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and MariaDB.