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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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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. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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

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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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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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Write Optimized Spark Code for Big Data Applications

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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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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. The engine should be compact and efficient, so one can deploy it in multiple datacenters on small clusters. High performance and mobility. Pipelining.

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Sustainability: Thoughts from a software engineer

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Until recently, improvements in data center power efficiency compensated almost entirely for the increasing demand for computing resources. The rise of big data, cryptocurrencies, and AI means the IT sector contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. However, this trend is now reversing.

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Moving HPC to the Cloud: A Guide for 2020

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This is a guest post by Limor Maayan-Wainstein , a senior technical writer with 10 years of experience writing about cybersecurity, big data, cloud computing, web development, and more. When coupled with the cloud, HPC is made more affordable, accessible, efficient and shareable. What Is HPC?

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