Tag: data warehouse

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. MemSQL CEO Nikita Shamgunov was featured recently on the Data Engineering Podcast with host Tobias Macey. Tobias drew out Nikita on MemSQL’s origins, our exciting present, and where we’re going in the future. We share a few highlights here, but we also urge you to listen to the full episode. The podcast covered a wide variety of topics. In this blog post, we’ll highlight Nikita’s comments on MemSQL’s origins; setting up and running the MemSQL database; typical use cases; and the future of MemSQL. How MemSQL Started Nikita grew up and was educated in ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Emil Eifrem, CEO & Co-Founder, Neo4j, Inc. | December 13, 2018Reading time: 8 minutes Just yesterday, I got to announce the addition of Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board of Directors.Today, I get to announce another incredibly important executive appointment: Mike Asher has joined Neo4j as our inaugural chief financial officer (CFO).Since Mike works from our global headquarters in San Mateo, California, he and I recently got to sit down for an interview. Here’s how it went.For readers who don’t know you, could you tell ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. AWS Glue uses connections to access certain types of source and target data stores, as described in the AWS Glue documentation.By default, you can use AWS Glue to create connections to data stores in the same AWS account and AWS Region as the one where you have AWS Glue resources. In this blog post, we describe how to access data stores in an account or AWS Region different from the one where ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data across your data warehouse and data lake. Amazon Redshift delivers ten times faster performance than other data warehouses at a tenth of the cost by using machine learning, massively parallel query execution, and columnar storage on high-performance disk.You can get started with Amazon Redshift with our 2-month free trial. To learn more about new Amazon Redshift features, see the Amazon Redshift Developer Guide and Document History in the Amazon Redshift Management Guide. You can also subscribe to the ... Read More

Feed: Yellowbrick Data. Author: Stacy Miles; Yellowbrick Data Warehouse Offers the Most Compatible and Easiest Upgrade Path for Netezza Users PALO ALTO, Calif – Dec. 11, 2018 – In six months, IBM will end support for Netezza Twinfin and Striper data warehouse product lines, forcing enterprise customers to find new solutions for their business-critical analytics. With its hybrid cloud solution, Yellowbrick Data is the simplest, most compatible upgrade for Netezza customers. Many of the world’s largest companies have chosen the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, including: one of the top five credit card companies, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, a ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Saumitra Buragohain. To make Big Data cloud-native, Hortonworks has unveiled the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative. In our previous blogs, we have talked about the vision, key tenets/concepts, real-world use case, and the new storage environment of O3. We often get asked by our customers, partners, and analysts: “Hortonworks has been in the middle of the data revolution for years. How do you plan to bring the new Kubernetes cloud-native architecture to Big Data?” Why Cloud Native Computing Foundation We have collaborated with many of our customers in their container journey for many years now, leading ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matt Usher. Monitoring and managing the performance of your data warehouse is critical to the overall health of your data estate. With the increase in data and query velocities, tracking query metrics pertaining to usage frequency, resource consumption, or regressions can impact your ability to efficiently draw meaningful insights from your data. To increase your efficiency, we’re excited to reveal the preview of Query Store for Azure SQL Data Warehouse for both our Gen1 and Gen2 offers. Query Store is designed to help you with query performance troubleshooting by tracking queries, query plans, runtime statistics, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In November, we announced Power BI’s self-service data preparation capabilities with dataflows, making it possible for business analysts and BI professionals to author and manage complex data prep tasks using familiar self-service tools. Dataflow data can be easily shared across Power BI, allowing business analysts and BI professionals to save time and resources by building on each other’s work, instead of duplicating it, leading to more unified, less siloed data. Learn more about Power BI data prep capabilities here. Today, we’re excited to announce integration between Power BI dataflows ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Microsoft Connect(); 2018 On Tuesday, December 4th, Microsoft Connect(); 2018 provided a full day of developer-focused content—including updates on Azure and Visual Studio, keynotes, demos, and real-time coding with experts. Scott Guthrie’s keynote provided all the Azure and Visual Studio news on how you can stay productive and focus on what matters to you. Guthrie’s keynote was followed by a demo-packed session hosted by Scott Hanselman and friends that provided a full tour on how you can build your apps on Azure using best-in-class developer tools. The day continued with coding sessions hosted ... Read More