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The Evolution of Table Formats

Monte Carlo

At its core, a table format is a sophisticated metadata layer that defines, organizes, and interprets multiple underlying data files. For example, a single table named ‘Customers’ is actually an aggregation of metadata that manages and references several data files, ensuring that the table behaves as a cohesive unit.

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Demystifying Modern Data Platforms

Cloudera

The gathering in 2022 marked the sixteenth year for top data and analytics professionals to come to the MIT campus to explore current and future trends. A key area of focus for the symposium this year was the design and deployment of modern data platforms. Are there things they should keep in mind?

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How to Update Documents in Elasticsearch

Rockset

Example application with frequent updates To better understand use cases that have frequent updates , let’s look at a search application for a video streaming service like Netflix. When a user searches for a show, ie “political thriller”, they are returned a set of relevant results based on keywords and other metadata.

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Discover and Explore Data Faster with the CDP DDE Template

Cloudera

It is designed to simplify deployment, configuration, and serviceability of Solr-based analytics applications. DDE also makes it much easier for application developers or data workers to self-service and get started with building insight applications or exploration services based on text or other unstructured data (i.e.

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A Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solution in CDP Public Cloud – Part1

Cloudera

A typical approach that we have seen in customers’ environments is that ETL applications pull data with a frequency of minutes and land it into HDFS storage as an extra Hive table partition file. In this way, the analytic applications are able to turn the latest data into instant business insights. Design Detail.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

AltexSoft

Maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, Apache Spark is an open-source, unified engine designed for large-scale data analytics. The building blocks of Apache Spark Apache Spark comprises a suite of libraries and tools designed for data analysis, machine learning , and graph processing on large-scale data sets.

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The Role of Database Applications in Modern Business Environments

Knowledge Hut

In this blog, we will deep dive into database system applications in DBMS, and their components and look at a list of database applications. What are Database Applications? Database applications are software programs or systems that are designed to organize and efficiently store, handle, and retrieve vast amounts of data.