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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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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. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

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Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

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UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Real-time monitoring and evaluation of events have led to a positive impact on performance or operations.

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