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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

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Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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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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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

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On-premise BI tools also require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. We believe this provides a simple way for users to deriving valuable insights without too much work.

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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

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In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

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In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. Also, you can choose to program post-commit actions, such as running aggregate analytical functions or updating other dependent tables. Summing It All Up.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

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They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Collaboration and sharing of live analytics : Users often want to slice and dice their data and share it in various ways.

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