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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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Data Storage Formats for Big Data Analytics: Performance and Cost Implications of Parquet, Avro, and ORC

DZone

Efficient data processing is crucial for businesses and organizations that rely on big data analytics to make informed decisions. One key factor that significantly affects the performance of data processing is the storage format of the data.

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3 Performance Tricks for Dealing With Big Data Sets

DZone

This article describes 3 different tricks that I used in dealing with big data sets (order of 10 million records) and that proved to enhance performance dramatically. Trick 1: CLOB Instead of Result Set.

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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

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In today's data-driven world, efficient data processing plays a pivotal role in the success of any project. Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

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Write Optimized Spark Code for Big Data Applications

DZone

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. Broadcast variables can be used to efficiently distribute large read-only data structures, such as lookup tables, to worker nodes.

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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

All Things Distributed

Amazon's worldwide financial operations team has the incredible task of tracking all of that data (think petabytes). At Amazon's scale, a miscalculated metric, like cost per unit, or delayed data can have a huge impact (think millions of dollars). The team is constantly looking for ways to get more accurate data, faster.

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