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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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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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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. Merging those numerous smaller files into a handful of larger files can make query processing faster and reduce storage space.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. How does a data lakehouse work?

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background.