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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes.

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