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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers. Today, developers of technology (for example medical technology, software) and platform operators (social media enablers, credit card companies) are at the top. These mechanisms need to be lean, seamless and effective.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Given the specialized nature of these platforms, they require dedicated resources to maintain and operate and put a big burden on the IT organization. until today.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Orchestration The Big Data Orchestration team is responsible for providing all of the services and tooling to schedule and execute ETL and Adhoc pipelines.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. Big data challenges. We believe this is one of the critical parts of our big data offerings.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

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They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Enter Amazon QuickSight. Get started by signing up for free at Amazon QuickSight , with 1 user and 1 GB of SPICE capacity.

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