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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

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While this format may not be ideal when you only need to retrieve a few rows from a large partition, it truly excels in analytical use cases. Spark takes full advantage of this storage property by exclusively reading the columns that are involved in subsequent computations.

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Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

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Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

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A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Any analysis, any time: Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail

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Log management and analytics is an essential part of any organization’s infrastructure, and it’s no secret the industry has suffered from a shortage of innovation for several years. Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value.

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Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

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As teams try to gain insight into this data deluge, they have to balance the need for speed, data fidelity, and scale with capacity constraints and cost. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022. Logs on Grail Log data is foundational for any IT analytics.

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Microsoft Azure Event Hubs

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Introduction With big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Azure Event Hubs , millions of events can be received and processed in a single second. Any real-time analytics provider or batching/storage adaptor can transform and store data supplied to an event hub.

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