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Data Analytics Streamlines Gaming Industry. Here’s How - Datanami
WEBAugust 29, 2019. Data Analytics Streamlines Gaming Industry. Here’s How. Kseniya Yurevich. (sezer66/Shutterstock) In 2018, the video game industry revenue reached a new peak of $43.4 billion, which is 18% more compared to the previous year. This intensely growing sector breeds more complex and sweeping gaming formats, including desktop ...
Data Mesh Vs. Data Fabric: Understanding the Differences
WEBOct 25, 2021 · Data Mesh. While a data mesh aims to solve many of the same problems as a data fabric–namely, the difficulty of managing data in a heterogenous data environment–it tackles the problem in a fundamentally different manner. In short, while the data fabric seeks to build a single, virtual management layer atop distributed data, the data mesh ...
Big Data File Formats Demystified - Datanami
WEBMay 16, 2018 · Luckily for you, the big data community has basically settled on three optimized file formats for use in Hadoop clusters: Optimized Row Columnar (ORC), Avro, and Parquet. While these file formats share some similarities, each of them are unique and bring their own relative advantages and disadvantages. To …
Benchmarking Performance & Cost: GCP vs. AWS. vs. Azure
WEBFeb 12, 2021 · About the Report: The annual Cockroach Labs Cloud Report benchmarks AWS, Azure, and Google against each other, compiling results from over 1,000 microbenchmark tests. The big three are benchmarked on: CPU performance, network throughput and latency, storage read/write performance, and the TPC-C database benchmark. Download this whitepaper.
Cloud-Native Knowledge Graph Forges a Data Fabric
WEBNov 19, 2020 · Cloud-Native Knowledge Graph Forges a Data Fabric. Knowledge graph databases continue to go cloud-native with the release of an enterprise version billed as a fabric connecting data on multiple clouds as well as on-premise data stores. The enterprise knowledge graph platform released this week by Stardog is promoted as …
Presto the Future of Open Data Analytics, Foundation Says
WEBJun 28, 2021 · The Presto Foundation was founded in 2019 with four members, including Facebook, Uber, Twitter, and Alibaba. Over time, the group has added additional members, including Ahana, Alluxio, Upsolver, Intel, and Starburst. Intel is interested in participating with the Presto Foundation to help bolster the performance of the SQL engine on industry-standard X64 processors.
The Evolution of Remote Sensing: Delivering on the Promise
WEBNov 13, 2018 · The Evolution of Remote Sensing: Delivering on the Promise of IoT. Remote sensing technology has come a long way since Gaspard Felix Tournachon’s pioneering aerial photographs in 1858. While the technology has advanced, there is one aspect of remote sensing that has remained relatively unchanged: the frequency of data acquisition.
What Is Categorical Data? - Datanami
WEBJul 25, 2022 · Categorical data is one of two main data types (Tee11/Shutterstock) Census data, such as citizenship, gender, and occupation; ID numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses; Brands (Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Kia, etc.). In some instances, categorical data can be both categorical and numerical. For example, …
Data Lake or Warehouse? Databricks Offers a Third Way - Datanami
WEBNov 12, 2020 · Databricks Offers a Third Way. In the ongoing debate about where companies ought to store data they want to analyze – in a data warehouses or in data lake — Databricks today unveiled a third way. With SQL Analytics, Databricks is building upon its Delta Lake architecture in an attempt to fuse the performance and concurrency of data ...
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