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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io. In my case, I’m using this data as a simulation of text messages, and will show how we can use ClickHouse as a backend for an API. count()?? ? 1248 ? ??????????? 1 rows in set. Elapsed: 4.510 sec.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

The godfather of the web performance movement, educator, speaker, the author of the most essential books in the industry, High Performance Websites (which was #1 in Amazon’s Computer and Internet bestsellers in 2007) and Even Faster Websites , and the co-author of Web Performance Daybook Volume 2. Rick Viscomi. Phil Walton.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns. Fisher, 2007.

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