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Write Optimized Spark Code for Big Data Applications

DZone

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. In addition, pySpark applications can be tuned to optimize performance and achieve better execution time, scalability, and resource utilization.

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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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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. A typical example of pipelining is shown below: In this example, the hash join algorithm is employed to join four relations: R1, S1, S2, and S3 using 3 processors.

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. Key challenges. Performance.

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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. These distributed storage services also play a pivotal role in big data and analytics operations.

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What is IT operations analytics? Extract more data insights from more sources

Dynatrace

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA collects operational data to identify patterns and anomalies for faster incident management and near-real-time insights.

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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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