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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

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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Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. The memory bandwidth will be a key player because the traditional method to add memory bandwidth by adding memory channels is not scalable.

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

Alongside more traditional sessions such as Real-World Deployed Systems and Big Data Programming Frameworks, there were many papers focusing on emerging hardware architectures, including embedded multi-accelerator SoCs, in-network and in-storage computing, FPGAs, GPUs, and low-power devices. ATC ’19 was refreshingly different.

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

All Things Distributed

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. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. It reduces the noise by discarding minor fluctuations that simply do not fit the smaller basis.

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