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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Comparison Overview. PostgreSQL offers more light-weight tuning capabilities, like their Query Optimizer, and DBaaS platforms like ScaleGrid offer advanced slow query analysis. Compare Ease of Use. PostgreSQL.

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Infinitely scalable machine learning with Amazon SageMaker

All Things Distributed

Amazon SageMaker training supports powerful container management mechanisms that include spinning up large numbers of containers on different hardware with fast networking and access to the underlying hardware, such as GPUs. Post-training model tuning and rich states. This can all be done without touching a single line of code.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. The Top Queries That Weren't.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Hadoop’s value—being able to crunch large datasets—often paled in comparison to its costs. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. The elephant was unstoppable. Until it wasn’t.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Effectively applying AI involves extensive manual effort to develop and tune many different types of machine learning and deep learning algorithms (e.g. automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, image classification), collect and clean the training data, and train and tune the machine learning models.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> INSERT INTO employees_compressed SELECT * FROM employees; Size comparison: [user1] percona@db1: ~ $ sudo ls -lh /var/lib/mysql/employees/|grep employees -rw-r --. sec) mysql> ALTER TABLE employees_compressed ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14