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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. 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.

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Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

DZone

Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2.

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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

DZone

Spark takes full advantage of this storage property by exclusively reading the columns that are involved in subsequent computations.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Master the Art of Querying Data on Amazon S3

DZone

This is especially the case when it comes to taking advantage of vast amounts of data stored in cloud platforms like Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service, which has become a central repository of data types ranging from the content of web applications to big data analytics.

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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. Storage provisioning.

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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. The pipelines can be stateful and the engine’s middleware should provide a persistent storage to enable state checkpointing. Towards Unified Big Data Processing.

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