Like others have mentioned, Postgres and Redshift are very different animals, Postgres is a row store and Redshift is a column store. On large data sets analytic queries that return a few columns will significantly outperform a row store DB.
We have found that Redshift is comparable to other columnar databases we work with, while we cannot publish any comparative benchmarks, we did put a blog post on what we found (link in another comment here)
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Like others have mentioned, Postgres and Redshift are very different animals, Postgres is a row store and Redshift is a column store. On large data sets analytic queries that return a few columns will significantly outperform a row store DB.
We have found that Redshift is comparable to other columnar databases we work with, while we cannot publish any comparative benchmarks, we did put a blog post on what we found (link in another comment here)