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Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft’s production big-data clusters

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Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft’s production big-data clusters Kandula et al., Microsoft’s big data clusters have 10s of thousands of machines, and are used by thousands of users to run some pretty complex queries. Five queries improve substantially on both latency and total compute hours.

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Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining

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Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. what is the cardinality of the data set)?

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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