Analytics

Snowflake Demo: Cross-Cloud Replication & Failover and Failback

Snowflake's cross-cloud replication & failover/failback support ensures high availability and quick recovery of data — no matter where or through which cloud provider your business operates. This demo video will walk you through how you would replicate a database across three clouds for business continuity purposes (from AWS US West in Oregon to Azure East US in Virginia to GCP Europe West in the Netherlands).

Hadoop vs. SQL - Which is Better for Data Management?

The key differences between Hadoop vs. SQL: Organizations rely on big data to power their business, but many teams struggle with the complexities of data management. Thankfully, Hadoop and SQL handle large data sets more efficiently. These tools manage data in unique ways, which makes it difficult for us to compare them on a like-for-like basis. However, organizations looking to streamline their tech stacks might have reason to choose one over the other. In this article, we compared Hadoop vs.

Exploding arrays in Kafka with lateral joins

In this article we are going to explore lateral joins. "What is a lateral join?" you may ask. It's a new kind of join that allows to extract and work with the single elements found inside an array, as if the array was a normal table. Lenses 4.1 comes with a lot of new features that make your life easier when working with arrays: we introduced 6 new functions to work with arrays, better support for array literals, and lateral joins.

3x better performance with CDP Data Warehouse compared to EMR in TPC-DS benchmark

In a previous blog post on CDW performance, we compared Azure HDInsight to CDW. In this blog post, we compare Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Apache Hive-LLAP to EMR 6.0 (also powered by Apache Hive-LLAP) on Amazon using the TPC-DS 2.9 benchmark. Amazon recently announced their latest EMR version 6.1.0 with support for ACID transactions. This benchmark is run on EMR version 6.0 as we couldn’t get queries to run successfully on version 6.1.0.

Modernizing Data in a Cloud-Enabled World | Part 2 | Snowflake Inc.

Deloitte's partnership with Snowflake showcases how Snowflake's new Cloud Platform modernization of data helps companies migrate information & innovate within the Cloud. Frank Farrall, AI Ecosystems & Snowflake Alliance Leader at Deloitte, details how his organization uses Snowflake's cloud technology & artificial intelligence to problem solve and innovate quickly. Rise of the Data Cloud is brought to you by Snowflake.

Chartio and Xplenty: Business Intelligence for Smart Companies

We're living in a data-driven age. In every sector, we've seen new companies emerge, executing lightning-fast strategies based on sophisticated analytics. These data mavericks have disrupted and sometimes even devoured their more traditional rivals. To stay afloat, you need a state-of-the-art data infrastructure. That means having the right platforms, the right data pipelines, and the right analytics engines. But when you have all that data, what do you actually do with it?

10X Engineering Leadership Series: 21 Playbooks to Lead in the Online Era

Managing online teams has become the new normal! In an online world, how do you give effective feedback, have a difficult conversation, increase team accountability, communicate to stakeholders effectively, and so on? At Unravel, we are a fast-growing AI startup with a globally distributed engineering team across the US, EMEA, and India. Even before the pandemic this year, the global nature of our team has prepared us for effectively leading outcomes across online engineering teams.

Structured vs Unstructured Data: A Short Guide

Data is the oil that fuels the growth of modern enterprises. But unless you have the tools to unlock the potential of data, you might be left stuck on the tracks as your competitors speed ahead. With the rise of Big Data, the nature of the data that we work with has changed drastically. Data scientists like to refer to the ‘3 Vs’ of Big Data: The 3 Vs of Big Data reshaped the data landscape as we knew it.