Tag: Database

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; Data scientists are one of the most valuable teams a company can have. But some businesses overlook how important it is to equip their data scientists with the tools that can help them unlock value from data.In particular, it is essential that companies remain adaptive and agile when taking in vast amounts of unstructured data. To get the most value from their data and their data scientists, businesses need a capable, easy-to-use data warehouse that offers built-in data science and parallel processing. These demands point to a data ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PREVIOUS POST There is a wide variety of indexes available in PostgreSQL. While most are common in almost all databases, there are some types of indexes that are more specific to PostgreSQL. For example, GIN indexes are helpful to speed up the search for element values within documents. GIN and GiST indexes could both be used for making full-text searches faster, whereas BRIN indexes are more useful when dealing with large tables, as it only stores the summary information of a page. We will look at these indexes in more detail in future blog posts. For now, ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Madhukar Kumar. Development teams building online and operational applications increasingly choose a new class of databases to support them. It’s called “NoSQL,” or “Not Only SQL”, and includes options such as Redis, MongoDB and others. Selecting the right database from among the available NoSQL solutions is one of the most important decisions you can make when designing a new application. So, if you are evaluating NoSQL databases, read on for some recommendations that will aid in your selection. When choosing your database, there are five high-level steps you should follow: Define the goals for your NoSQL ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Gwilym Lockwood. 14 June, 2019 How to highlight viz-in-tooltips in Tableau 2019.2 I recently discovered that you can use parameter actions to highlight (rather than filter) viz in tooltips. It’s pretty straightforward to set up, and it means you can add a nice bit of extra context to your graphs. You can follow along with the example I use here by going to this link and downloading the workbook. I started out by making a radial graph of this year’s Giro d’Italia results. I wanted to make something circular to look like a bike wheel ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Overview The Skinny In this blog post we will discuss how to use the Tungsten Connector keep-alive feature to ensure long-running MySQL & MariaDB/Percona Server client sessions stay connected in a Tungsten Cluster. Agenda What’s Here? Briefly explore how the Tungsten Connector works Describe the Connector keep-alives – what are they and why do we use them? Discuss why the keep-alive feature is not available in Bridge mode and why Examine how to tune the keep-alive feature in the Tungsten Connector Tungsten Connector: A Primer A Very Brief Summary The Tungsten Connector is an intelligent ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; In the age of cloud, infrastructure has become a competitive differentiator. Companies that build scalable, repeatable, automated Azure clouds are able to get products to market faster and innovate with fewer risks. But many companies feel that this vision of innovation on the cloud is out of reach, mostly due to a lack of cloud expertise. In fact, 85% of IT executives say that greater cloud expertise would help them recoup the return on their cloud investment, and 71% believed their organizations have lost revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise. An Azure Managed ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jessica Cowle What is multi-cloud? Multi-cloud is the use of two or more cloud computing services, including any combination of public, private, and hybrid.  The end result is the capacity to orchestrate resources across multiple private or public cloud platforms that contain multiple cloud vendors, accounts, availability zones, or regions or premises. Why use multiple clouds? The three most important benefits of utilizing multiple clouds are: High availability – The multi-cloud provides protection for an organization’s data storage against threats. If a cloud is unavailable, other clouds remain online to run applications. Flexibility – ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; The hospitality industry is in the midst of a major technology disruption. Hotel chains are exploring data analytics, artificial intelligence, voice-based search, and other tools to transform the guest experience — and are investing heavily in cloud solutions to achieve their vision. A global hotel chain with over $1B in annual revenue was an early adopter of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2012. The hotel chain’s IT team continually experiments with new products in order to deliver a more personalized customer experience, and have built a state-of-the-art, scalable, secure cloud platform on AWS to keep ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Dr. Moloy De. Our client was an Emergency Response Management organization who handles medical, police and fire emergencies through the " 1-0-8 Emergency service". Currently the organization runs around 690 ambulances. An analysis is run on historic data extracted from client's management database. The live data input is fed to a simulation model to propose an optimal ambulance allocation providing an opportunity of cost reduction for the organization. In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution is the probability distribution that describes the time between events in a Poisson process, i.e ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. You probably already know that leading analyst firms have been quoting data lake failure rates of 85% for some time now. You may not be aware that one of those same leading analyst firms are now also forecasting that, by 2020, 30% of data lakes will be built on standard relational DBMS (database management system) technology “at equal or lower cost than Hadoop” because – and I quote - “application performance is superior” and “most data going into data lakes is relational.” Put those two things together and you start to understand why MapR has recently gone to the ... Read More