Tag: columnar

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. If you needed an on-premises data warehouse today, would you choose a version of Postgres released in 2005 (Postgres 8.0.2)? How about a version of MySQL released in 2005 (MySQL 5.0.15)? Perhaps you’d ask Oracle if you could use Oracle Database 10g Release 2 even though it was released in 2005 and reached end-of-life a decade ago?I didn’t think so. You know better, and so do I. Amazon? Not so much. They built Redshift on ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB) in 2013, itself built on Postgres 8.0.2. ParAccel would go on to be acquired by ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Saravana Krishnamurthy. SkySQL is the first database-as-a-service (DBaaS) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform in the cloud. Engineered for mission-critical applications and enterprise governance, SkySQL cloud database is focused on features which make life better for the developer, the DBA, and the operator — extending powerful enterprise features with unrivaled ease of use and first-in-class innovation.MariaDB Platform for Transactions Whether you need transactional capabilities for dev/test or production, MariaDB Platform for Transactions delivers the robust modern SQL capabilities of MariaDB Enterprise Server either in single-node Standalone configuration, or in a multi-node replicated Primary/Replica topology ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shashi Raina. By Shashi Raina, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Shruthi Panicker, Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager at SisenseIt’s well known that organizations these days are inundated with data, but the issue of data complexity is often underestimated. Blending data from different sources is considered the most important data integration challenge in the analytics landscape today. Reports show the median number of internal sources used to support decision-making is five, while the mean number of external sources is three. That kind of complexity, along with lagging business intelligence (BI) adoption rates and the fact ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: MariaDB. Over the past few years, MariaDB Corporation has heard from countless Oracle database users seeking to replace their database platform to achieve a lower cost and increased operational flexibility. Our new whitepaper, “Lower TCO without Lowering Standards: Migrate to MariaDB Platform from Oracle” provides a roundup of key decision points and our experiences in guiding customers through successful application migrations. What did we learn along the way?MariaDB Platform frees companies from the costs, constraints, and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB Has ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Most businesses generate data continuously in real time and at ever-increasing volumes. Data is generated as users play mobile games, load balancers log requests, customers shop on your website, and temperature changes on IoT sensors. You can capitalize on time-sensitive events, improve customer experiences, increase efficiency, and drive innovation by analyzing this data quickly. The speed at which you get these insights often depends on how quickly you can load data into data lakes, data stores, and other analytics tools. As data volume and velocity increases, it becomes more important to not only load the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS Glue provides a serverless environment to prepare (extract and transform) and load large amounts of datasets from a variety of sources for analytics and data processing with Apache Spark ETL jobs. The first post of the series, Best practices to scale Apache Spark jobs and partition data with AWS Glue, discusses best practices to help developers of Apache Spark applications and Glue ETL jobs, big data architects, data engineers, and business analysts scale their data processing jobs running on AWS Glue automatically.This post shows how to incrementally load data from data sources in an ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. A recent Dresner report, the Analytical Data Infrastructure Market Study, includes MemSQL for the first time. The report shows MemSQL as the leader among full-service database providers – ahead of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Oracle. (A few specialty analytics products also rank highly.) The Dresner report is part of their Wisdom of Crowds series, and rates MemSQL as an Overall Leader in both major categories of the report: Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility, with a perfect Recommend score.  About the Dresner Study Dresner Advisory Services is well-known for their insightful market studies ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Capterra describes itself as “the leading online resource for business software buyers,” boasting more than one million verified software reviews across hundreds of software categories. Those one million reviews include many positive takes on MemSQL software, including this comment from a big data manager: “Best Distributed RDBMS Ever!”  Capterra is growing fast, with more than five million monthly users, and the number of verified reviews on the site nearly doubling between 2018 and mid-2019. Capterra research asserts that reviews reduce purchase cycles by more than six months. More than four in ten small and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To help power one of the most dynamic data center and global interconnection platforms in the world, Equinix relies on Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a core Oracle Database transaction engine to run its growing business. With a global footprint of more than 200 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers spanning across more than 50 markets on five continents, Platform Equinix® contains the highest share of the world's public cloud on-ramps and one of the most physically and virtually interconnected ecosystems in the world. Equinix currently serves nearly 10,000 customers globally, including the world’s largest cloud ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bhupinder Kour. With the growing demand for scalability and flexibility, NoSQL databases are gaining huge momentum in the market. These databases are preferred as the first choice to develop complex web and mobile applications and operate with unstructured data. A ripple effect of which is that the NoSQL market is anticipated to hit $4.2 billion by the end of this year. This has made both new and experienced database administrators and data scientists turn towards the NoSQL databases and see which one to pick as an alternative to SQL relational databases ... Read More