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Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. How does a major technology services company equip itself to compete in the digital age – and provide services so outstanding that they can significantly advance the business prospects of their customers? All while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and tightening SLAs – in some cases, by 10x or more? For one such company, the solution is to deliver real-time, operational analytics with Kafka and MemSQL. In this company, data flowed through several data stores, and from a relational, SQL database, into NoSQL data stores for batch query processing, and back into SQL for BI, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. OSM to PostGIS – The BasicsEver wondered how to import OSM (OpenStreetMap) data into PostGIS [1] for the purpose of visualization and further analytics? Here are the basic steps to do so.There are a bunch of tools on the market— osm2pgsql; imposm; ogr2org; just to mention some of those. In this article I will focus on osm2pgsql [2] .Let’s start with the software prerequisites. PostGIS comes as a PostgreSQL database extension, which must be installed in addition to the core database. Up till now, the latest PostGIS version is 3, which was released some days ago. For ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Haley Kim. To kick off the final month of 2019, some 65,000 cloud professionals will descend on Las Vegas for the industry event of the year, AWS re:Invent, a four-day extravaganza of keynote speakers, networking, learning, and training.  As always, Redis Labs will have a big presence at re:Invent. This year, we’re all in on the theme of Growth Happens. As your company and database needs grow, Redis Enterprise offers the best options for running Redis—one of the most widely used databases in AWS and the most loved by developers everywhere. To signify our focus on ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Tony Darnell; Installing MySQL on Oracle Cloud’s “Always Free” Compute Instance November 14, 2019 Leave a comment At Oracle’s OpenWorld 2019, Oracle announced an Oracle Cloud Free Tier, which includes Oracle Cloud services that will always be free – as long as you use them or keep them active. Most other hyperscale cloud vendors offer a free 12-month trial before they start charging you, so to see Oracle provide a “truly free” service is really great. And the free services are not just limited to one or two choices – you get a wide variety of free ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. ElastiCache T3-Standard cache nodes accumulate CPU credits when the workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the cache node the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core till the accrued credits are exhausted. ElastiCache T3-Standard cache nodes are suitable for entry-level, small and medium cache workloads that may also experience temporary spikes in use.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. DAX provides a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that can accelerate reads from DynamoDB tables by up to 10 times, even at millions of requests per second. DAX does all the heavy lifting required to add in-memory acceleration to your DynamoDB tables. DAX is API-compatible with DynamoDB, so you don’t have to change your application logic to use DAX. Just provision a DAX cluster, use the DAX client SDK to point your existing DynamoDB API calls to the DAX cluster, and let DAX handle the rest ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: David Lindelöf. [This article was first published on R – David's blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. As a data scientist, you will likely be asked one day to automate your analysis and port your models to production environments. When that happens you cross the blurry line between data science and software engineering, and become a machine learning engineer. I’d like to share a few tips on ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. DAX provides a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that can accelerate reads from DynamoDB tables by up to 10 times, even at millions of requests per second. DAX does all the heavy lifting required to add in-memory acceleration to your DynamoDB tables. You provision a DAX cluster, use the DAX client SDK to point your existing DynamoDB API calls to the DAX cluster, and let DAX handle the rest.   ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Designing an optimized schema in a Relational Database Management System is crucial for performance. One important aspect of optimization is the complexity of the queries that will run on the schema. If schema is considered simply as a model or layout about how data is to be stored in an orderly fashion, it can take a toll on the performance in real action. So, you must tune a schema specifically for performance. This must be done right from the design phase, including estimating specific queries that you are supposed to run. You ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Scott Jeschonek. If data-access challenges have been keeping you from running high-performance computing (HPC) jobs in Azure, we’ve got great news to report! The now-available Microsoft Azure HPC Cache service lets you run your most demanding workloads in Azure without the time and cost of rewriting applications and while storing data where you want to—in Azure or on your on-premises storage. By minimizing latency between compute and storage, the HPC Cache service seamlessly delivers the high-speed data access required to run your HPC applications in Azure. Use Azure to expand analytic capacity—without worrying about data ... Read More