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Dataframe Showdown – Polars vs Spark vs Pandas vs DataFusion. Guess who wins?

Confessions of a Data Guy

There once was a day when no one used DataFrames that much. Back before Spark had really gone mainstream, Data Scientists were still plinking around with Pandas a lot. My My, what would your mother say? How things have changed. Now everyone wants a piece of the DataFrame pie. I mean it tastes so good, […] The post Dataframe Showdown – Polars vs Spark vs Pandas vs DataFusion.

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Reducing Data Analytics Costs In 2023 – Doing More With Less

Seattle Data Guy

If you haven’t started looking for ways to improve your data analytics budget for 2023, then you’re probably already behind. The truth is that between all of the various economic indicators and investor letters, everyone is looking to improve audit all parts of their business. Especially where there has likely been bloat. One of those… Read more The post Reducing Data Analytics Costs In 2023 – Doing More With Less appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Query Acceleration Service in Snowflake

Cloudyard

Read Time: 4 Minute, 28 Second During this post we will discuss one of the important Snowflake Capability i.e. Query Acceleration Service a.k.a. (QAS). When statement is submitted to a warehouse, Snowflake allocates resources for executing the statement. If there aren’t enough resources available, the statement is queued or additional warehouses are started, depending on the warehouse.