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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. For instance, Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers scale, file-level security, and file system semantics. You will also receive low-cost, tiered storage with high availability and disaster recovery capabilities because these capabilities are built on Blob storage.

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Forking is not free; the hidden costs

Nick Desaulniers

The Open Source software development model is a powerful approach to collaboratively iterating on a shared solution to a common problem. Rather than competitors duplicating effort to come up with multiple suboptimal solutions, they can collaborate together to build something greater. Forking is the term used to denote making a copy of a codebase. The copy, known as a “fork” is used as a starting point for work that may be contributed back to the original maintainers; the canonical &l

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Unlocking the Secrets of TOAST: How To Optimize Large Column Storage in PostgreSQL for Top Performance and Scalability

Percona

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. PostgreSQL uses fixed-sized pages, which makes it challenging to store huge data values directly.

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