As an analyst who deals with data from many data sources daily, you might find yourself as the go-to source for information about business intelligence in your office. While it’s cute when your grandma asks about what it is you…
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Your company sits on an immense treasure trove of data, but tapping this data and accessing its value can be a challenge. The complexity of legacy systems is compounded by internal teams that need various combinations of system data in easily…
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Amazon Redshift is a very powerful data warehouse, optimized for analyzing massive amounts of data in a blink of a second, when configured right.It’s a highly robust system, complete with features for configuring every step of the process with absolute…
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As a member of the marketing team you already know that data is power. However, it’s not always easy to get, and even when you can get the data you need, it’s not always easy to understand, analyze, interpret and…
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There are some big things happening around big data. I’ve had the chance to work with various types of cloud, data center, and virtualization systems through the years. One of the biggest trends throughout these deployments has been the growth…
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Redis Cloud plans (as of October 2026)MongoDB Atlas plans (as of October 2026)Our Methodology: We set up both databases ourselves, locally and on their managed free tiers, loaded the same sample data and ran the same reads, writes and queries…
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The demand for skilled Data Engineers (or Big Data Engineers) is projected to rapidly grow. No wonder that’s the case: no matter what your company does, to succeed in today’s competitive environment, you need a robust infrastructure to both store…
If you’re looking for a solution for processing huge chuncks of data, then there are lots of options these days. Depending on your use case and the type of operations you want to perform on data, you can choose from…
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Attendance at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference almost doubled, from 18,000 people last year to 32,000 people last week. The large, international cloud computing event attracted professionals from all types of industries, including financial services, healthcare, gaming, and others interested…
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