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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Although there are many books on data mining in general and its applications to marketing and customer relationship management in particular [BE11, AS14, PR13 etc.], The rest of the article is organized as follows: We first introduce a simple framework that ties together a retailer’s actions, profits and data. Gallien, 2012.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.