Redshift Requirements
This section describes the requirements, access privileges, and other features of Fivetran HVR when using Amazon Redshift for replication.
Supported Platforms
- Learn about the Redshift versions compatible with HVR on our Platform Support Matrix page (6.1.0, 6.1.5, 6.2.0, and 6.2.5).
Supported Capabilities
- Discover what HVR offers for Redshift on our Capabilities for Redshift page (6.1.0, 6.1.5, 6.2.0, and 6.2.5).
Data Management
Learn how HVR maps data types between source and target DBMSes or file systems on the Data Type Mapping page. For the list of the supported Redshift data types and their mapping, see Data Type Mapping for Redshift.
Understand the character encodings HVR supports for Redshift on the Supported Character Encodings page.
ODBC Connection
HVR uses ODBC connection to the Amazon Redshift clusters. The Amazon Redshift ODBC driver must be installed on the machine from which HVR connects to the Amazon Redshift clusters. For more information about downloading and installing Amazon Redshift ODBC driver, refer to AWS documentation. On Linux, HVR additionally requires unixODBC. For information about the supported ODBC driver version, refer to the HVR release notes (hvr.rel) available in the HVR_HOME directory or the download page.