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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. How does a data lakehouse work?

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.

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Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

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Reduce RPO, Encrypt Backups, and More in 1.15.0 Release of Percona Operator for MongoDB

Percona

release , we added support for physical backups and restores to significantly reduce Recovery Time Objective ( RTO ), especially for big data sets. However, the problem of losing data between backups – in other words, Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – for physical backups was not solved. spec: backup: enabled: true.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. Data is retrieved by scheduling a job, which typically completes within 3 to 5 hours. All Things Distributed.

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