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How to use R with BigQuery
See how to use R to query data in Google BigQuery with the bigrquery and dplyr R packages.
How the cloud and big compute are remaking HPC
High-performance computing projects require massive quantities of compute resources. Pairing simulation and specialized hardware with the cloud powers the breakthroughs of the future.
Why developers use Confluent to manage Apache Kafka
How the fully managed Kafka service can bring peace and simplicity to the lives of those who depend on event streaming infrastructure.
Google’s Logica language addresses SQL’s flaws
Open source logic programming language compiles to SQL and runs on Google BigQuery, with experimental support for PostgreSQL and SQLite.
Ahana Cloud for Presto review: Fast SQL queries against data lakes
Ahana Cloud for Presto turns a data lake on Amazon S3 into what is effectively a data warehouse, without moving any data. SQL queries run quickly even when joining multiple heterogeneous data sources.
Solving query optimization in Presto
By combining machine learning and adaptive query execution, query optimization in Presto could become smarter and more efficient over repeated use.
Microsoft brings .NET dev to Apache Spark
.NET for Apache Spark 1.0 provides high-performance .NET APIs to Apache Spark including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and MLlib
Azure Databricks previews parallelized Photon query engine
Microsoft and Databricks say the vectorized query engine written in C++ accelerates Apache Spark workloads by up to 20x
Why you should use Presto for ad hoc analytics
A federated SQL query execution engine created at Facebook, Presto brings interactive querying to all of your data — no matter where it resides
15 hot tech skills getting hotter -- no certification required
Employers are apt to invest more often in cash premiums for noncertified tech skills compared to certifications. Here are a few they’re coveting the most now and going forward.
Rakuten frees itself of Hadoop investment in two years
The U.S. arm of the Japanese e-commerce giant has moved away from Hadoop in a bid to cut hardware costs and ease the management of its estate
Julia vs. Python: Which is best for data science?
Python has turned into a data science and machine learning mainstay, while Julia was built from the ground up to do the job
Apache Spark 3.0 adds Nvidia GPU support for machine learning
The next major release of the in-memory data processing framework will support GPU-accelerated functions courtesy of Nvidia RAPIDS
Cython tutorial: How to speed up Python
How to use Cython and its Python-to-C compiler to give your Python applications a rocket boost
Is your data lake open enough? What to watch out for
Like yesterday’s data warehouses, today’s data lakes threaten to lock us into proprietary formats and systems that restrict innovation and raise costs
Data structures and algorithms in Java: A beginner's guide
Learn all about array and list data structures in Java, and the algorithms you can use to search and sort the data they contain
What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop
Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning
Neo4j 4.0 targets scalability, security, and performance
Leading native graph database adds long-awaited horizontal sharding, granular security, and reactive processing
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