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

All Things Distributed

It adopted Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and AWS Lambda to power its data warehouse, big data, and data science applications, supporting the development of product features at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Kik Interactive is a Canadian chat platform with hundreds of millions of users around the globe.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

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Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. The first platform is a real time, big data platform being used for analyzing traffic usage patterns to identify congestion and connectivity issues.

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