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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. 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. What is an MPP Database?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% Alok Pathak : While both (Multi-AZ and Read replica) maintain a copy of database but they are different in nature.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It’s not enough to just pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Expanding the Cloud â??

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