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How to Migrate from Amazon Redshift to Databricks

Skippr is the easiest way to migrate from Redshift to Databricks and get fully cleansed and modeled data in one run command.

Source: Redshift. Destination: Databricks.

Sample config

yaml
skippr:
  workspace: redshift_to_databricks
pipelines:
  redshift_to_databricks:
    data_source: data_sources.source
    data_sink: data_sinks.warehouse
data_sources:
  source:
    Redshift:
      cluster_identifier: my-cluster
      database: analytics
      db_user: admin
      region: us-east-1
data_sinks:
  warehouse:
    Databricks:
      workspace_url: "${DATABRICKS_HOST}"
      token: "${DATABRICKS_TOKEN}"
      warehouse_id: "${DATABRICKS_WAREHOUSE_ID}"
      catalog: main
      schema: default

Environment

bash
export DATABRICKS_HOST="https://myworkspace.cloud.databricks.com"
export DATABRICKS_TOKEN="dapi..."
export DATABRICKS_WAREHOUSE_ID="abc123def456"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your-key"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your-secret"

Source connector: redshift. Destination connector: databricks.

See Quick start.