Category: Amazon Redshift

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison today demonstrated that Amazon databases are 20 years behind the latest release of the Oracle Database in the Cloud. In his keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Ellison shared detailed analysis that showed that Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is up to 105X faster for Analytics workloads, 35X faster for OLTP, and 1000+X faster for mixed workloads than Amazon DBaaS. Ellison also showed that the Oracle Cloud is optimized for running Oracle Database while Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not. An Oracle Database ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. "In this coming year, you’ll see us aggressively moving into infrastructure-as-a-service,’’ Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chief technology officer and executive chairman of the board, said to kick off the company’s OpenWorld conference Sunday night at the Moscone Center. In the first of his two scheduled keynote addresses, Ellison went on to outline a number of strategic announcements that aim to strengthen the company’s offerings, as well as to help it compete with Amazon.com, one of its top challengers.  According to Ellison, one way Oracle will compete is by offering more cost-efficient solutions than ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Anjelica Cummings. Analytics Experience 2016 featured more than 100 breakout sessions and talks covering numerous topics in big data. You can watch many of those talks from our Analytics Experience 2016 video portal, where select keynote and session talks are archived. To give you a taste of the content you'll find there, here’s a look at two of those sessions from two very different companies – Dow Jones and UnitedHealthcare – which transformed their data strategies with SAS®. For Dow Jones, the answer was the cloud. For UnitedHealthcare, Hadoop. When it comes to data problems, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. We have 10 upcoming AWS Partner Webinars featuring a select number of AWS Partners.These webinars feature technical sessions led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts. Upcoming Webinars Seamless Visibility and Detection for the Cloud September 20th, 2016  | 10:00 – 11:00 AM PST Organizations need to apply security analytics to obtain seamless visibility and monitoring across both their on-premises and cloud environments. These challenges can be solved with comprehensive detection rules and behavioral analytics to ensure you detect potential threats. Join FireEye and AWS to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Ryan Nienhuis is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon Kinesis. This is the second of two AWS Big Data posts on Writing SQL on Streaming Data with Amazon Kinesis Analytics. In the last post, I provided an overview of streaming data and key concepts, such as the basics of streaming SQL, and completed a walkthrough using a simple example. In this post, I cover more advanced stream processing concepts using Amazon Kinesis Analytics and you can complete an end-to-end application. Amazon Kinesis Analytics allows you to easily write SQL ­­­on streaming data, providing ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. Want to dive deep and learn more about AWS Database offerings? This webinar series will provide you an exclusive deep dive into Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB. These webinars feature technical sessions led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts.Check out these upcoming webinars and register to attend! Amazon Aurora Architecture Overview September 26, 2016 | 11:30am-12:30pm PDT This webinar provides a deep architecture overview of Amazon Aurora. Partners attending this webinar will learn how Amazon Aurora differs from other relational database ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. The following is a guest post from Ken Chestnut, Global Ecosystem Lead, Big Data, AWSThe AWS Partner Network (APN) is designed to help APN Partners build a successful AWS-based business through technical and GTM support. Today, the APN includes tens of thousands of Consulting and Technology partners. Given the broad selection of partner services and offerings available via APN, customers have sought the go to partners in specific solution areas, such as Big Data, Migration, Security, DevOps, and Storage to name a few. To address our customers’ needs, AWS launched the AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. Are you ready to put the power of self-service data analytics into the hands of your business analysts? Don’t miss an upcoming webinar from AWS Big Data Competency Partner Alteryx and AWS, featuring joint customer, Deep Root Analytics, to learn how you can empower your analysts to leverage all of your data to uncover business insights more quickly. Deep Root Analytics, a political media analytics client, manages and analyzes an ever-growing list of data sources – including Amazon Redshift – to project political voter turnout and predict vote choice. To do this, Deep ... Read More

One of the most frequently requested data sources for Power BI over the last year has been Amazon Redshift. With the Power BI Desktop July update, we’re very happy to announce a Preview of the Amazon Redshift data connector. This connector provides connectivity to Amazon Redshift in Power BI Desktop, including both Import and DirectQuery connectivity modes, enabling full flexibility in terms of connectivity options for Report Authoring. Note that support for this connector is only available in Power BI Desktop, not in Power BI Gateway or PowerBI.com for refresh scenarios, which will come in the next couple of months ... Read More

Hello everyone! This month we are introducing some features that will enhance the overall user experience.  A few new and exciting features we’ve been working on like the analytics pane, including dynamic reference lines, just missed the cut-off for this month, but we’ll be looking to bring them to you in August. This is what we’ve got for the July release of Power BI Desktop: Report View: Predefined table styles ShapeMap can use custom maps Data Connectivity: New Data Connectors: Amazon Redshift (Import + DirectQuery) (Preview) Impala (Import) (Preview) Improvements to existing data connectors: Support for specifying a Command Timeout ... Read More