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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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Scaling for Success: Why Scalability Is the Forefront of Modern Applications

DZone

Scalability has become the biggest buzzword in the world of Modern Applications for a good reason. In short, it is the ability to handle more data, more users, and more demand without sacrificing performance, reliability, or security. It is not uncommon to question why scalability has grabbed the attention of the masses these days.

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What Should You Know About Graph Database’s Scalability?

DZone

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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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. As a result, the input data typically goes from the data source to the in-stream pipeline via a persistent buffer that allows clients to move their reading pointers back and forth.

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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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Microsoft Azure Event Hubs

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Introduction With big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Azure Event Hubs , millions of events can be received and processed in a single second. Any real-time analytics provider or batching/storage adaptor can transform and store data supplied to an event hub.

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