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What is Amazon Redshift Spectrum?

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has been around since 2006. Most use this scalable, cloud-based service for archiving and backing up data. Within 10 years of its birth, S3 stored over 2 trillion objects, each up to 5 terabytes in size. Enterprises value their data as something worth preserving. But much of this data lies inert, in “cold” data lakes, unavailable for analysis. Also called “dark data”, it can hold key insights for enterprises.

Redshift Join: How to use Redshift's Join Clause

Redshift’s JOIN clause is perhaps the second most important clause after SELECT clause, and it is used even more ubiquitously, considering how interconnected a typical application database’s tables are. Due to that connectivity between datasets, data developers require many joins to collect and process all the data points involved in most use cases. Unfortunately, as the number of tables you’re joining in grows, so does the sloth of your query.

PostgreSQL to Amazon Redshift: 4 Ways to Replicate Your Data

PostgreSQL is the preferred platform of millions of developers around the world. The open-source tool is one of the most powerful databases on the planet, with the ability to handle sophisticated analytical workloads and high levels of concurrency. That makes PostgreSQL (also called Postgres) a popular DB for scientific research and AI/ML projects. It’s also a popular production database for data-driven companies in every industry. But no database is perfect.

Channel global decoupling for region discovery

Ably is a platform for pub/sub messaging. Publishes are done on named channels, and clients subscribed to a given channel have all messages on that channel delivered to them. The Ably pub/sub backend is multi-region: we run the production cluster in 7 AWS regions, and channel pub/sub operates seamlessly between them.

CDP on Azure: Harnessing the Power of Data Flow and Event Processing

Data is being created at an ever increasing rate and generating insights through event streams has become a critical function for businesses. How can we process this data flowing in the enterprise, evaluate, enrich and transform it, all in real time to enable fast analytics to support intelligent decision making? Join us for this session where we will look at how we can use the elastic nature of Azure to scale Data Flows and perform SQL operations in realtime on streaming data from a variety of sources.

AWS Redshift Pricing: How much does Redshift cost?

While Redshift is arguably the best data warehouse on the market, it can come with a hefty price tag. We’ve created this Redshift pricing guide to help you evaluate Redshift cheaply, create a budget for full implementation, and optimize your Redshift set up so that you’re getting the most bang for your data buck. Ready to get started? Think of this blog post as a “choose your own adventure” guide.

Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Redshift

When choosing any SaaS application, you must start with a clear understanding of your business requirements. Then ask yourself the following questions: Develop a framework for data processing requirements, and you'll find a data warehouse solution that provides the right amount of power, functionality, and high performance for data analytics. Keep the answers to these questions in mind when reading through this article.

What Is Snowflake?

As a company’s data assets grow, the need for cloud computing increases in tandem. For keeping pace with this growth, Snowflake stands above the rest. What makes Snowflake so special? This cloud-agnostic platform takes the best of traditional database technology and combines it with modern cloud computing to drive the agility and innovation companies need to remain competitive. It features on-the-fly scaling, flexible clustering options, and the capability to hold several petabytes of information.