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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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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. As mentioned throughout this post, Greenplum is an open source database so the community version is absolutely free to download and use. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

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And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight. More on that later.). How does page bloat hurt your business?

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

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And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat Increased page size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. More on that later.)

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