This series of posts analyzes how specific databases stack up against each other. We've covered the following comparisons so far:
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Written by
Matan Sarig
|May 03, 2018
When it comes to NoSQL databases, MongoDB and Cassandra may seem similar but are quite different. Both have similar use cases, but are not intended for transactional data (i.e., accounting....
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Written by
Matan Sarig
|May 01, 2018
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Being Data Driven Data Technology
Humans are visually-motivated. When we see a movie, we’re drawn to the most beautiful and exotic settings, the most striking and recognizable actors, the biggest explosions. What we don’t spend a....
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Written by
An Bui
|April 19, 2018
As we speak the future of cloud computing is being decided. Amazon and Google, as well as Microsoft and a few others, offer multiple cloud solutions for practically everything. Despite the....
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Written by
Roi Avinoam
|January 31, 2018
Being Data Driven Data Technology
Amazon Redshift is a very powerful data warehouse, optimized for analyzing massive amounts of data in a blink of a second, when configured right.
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Written by
Roi Avinoam
|January 24, 2018
Data Industry and Trends Data Technology
2017 has come to an end, and as you're gearing up for a successful 2018, you might find a cheat sheet of essential ETL tools and data storage comparisions handy. This list provides commentary to....
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Written by
An Bui
|January 05, 2018
Being Data Driven Data Technology
Data analytics allows organizations to gain insight into their business operations and find new ways to increase their revenue. However, the data sources used to provide these insights are often....
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Written by
An Bui
|December 12, 2017
MySQL has become an inexpensive option for organizations around the globe that need a relational database. However, as the variety and volume of data has increased in recent years, non-relational....
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Written by
Matan Sarig
|November 27, 2017
Being Data Driven Data Technology
Data warehouses and data lakes are two different types of data storage repositories. Data warehouses integrate data from various sources and structures them for business reporting. Data lakes....
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Written by
An Bui
|November 21, 2017
PostgreSQL and MariaDB are open source databases, which boast of vast community support and development, as well as enterprise versions. While PostgreSQL has withstood time and continued....
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Written by
Cheryl Adams
|October 31, 2017
Being Data Driven Data Technology
Business Intelligence (BI) has, by tradition, been a long and drawn out process. In the early days of computers, BI tools such as SAP/Crystal Reports and IBM/Cognos came along to speed things up.....
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Written by
Cheryl Adams
|October 24, 2017
Being Data Driven Data Technology
Is it easy to connect to a data warehouse? Selecting the right tool can help make this connection attainable. Tableau Desktop makes this connection easy, from opening the software to connecting to....
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Written by
Cheryl Adams
|October 05, 2017
Although there are several data warehousing systems on the market, Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery are the industry behemoths. There is a “prevailing consensus that Amazon is leading the pack.....
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Written by
Alon Brody
|July 06, 2017
Whether your database needs to run on a mobile device or scale to a humongous size, this post has you covered with CouchDB vs. MongoDB. One of these databases can run on your phone while the other....
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Written by
Matan Sarig
|June 12, 2017
The battle of the NoSQL databases continues. We first analyzed Cassandra vs MongoDB. This time we will dig in Redis vs MongoDB.
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Written by
Matan Sarig
|May 29, 2017
Let's talk about data. The sheer volume of the data collected today is enormous. When I try to even imagine the amounts ... it's staggering.
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Written by
Alon Brody
|May 15, 2017
Setting up a Redshift cluster that hangs on some number of query executions is always a hassle. When users run queries in Amazon Redshift, the queries are routed to query queues. Usually the....
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Written by
Alon Brody
|April 25, 2017
Yesterday at AWS San Francisco Summit, Amazon announced a powerful new feature - Redshift Spectrum. Spectrum offers a set of new capabilities that allow Redshift users to seamlessly query....
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Written by
Roi Avinoam
|April 21, 2017
Data Industry and Trends Data Technology
Data warehouse technologies are advancing towards interactive, real-time, and analytical solutions. In particular, cloud-based data warehouse technologies have reached new heights with the help of....
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Written by
Alon Brody
|April 18, 2017
On Feb 28th, Amazon Web Services (AWS), went down for approximately 4 hours. The outage occurred in Amazon’s US-East-1 facility in Virginia, their biggest region, and disrupted business continuity....
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Written by
Yaniv Leven
|March 30, 2017
Today’s considered data management best practices, advocate building resilient architectures that span multiple data centers, regions or even continents.
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Written by
Roi Avinoam
|March 02, 2017
One of the main goals of this blog is to help developers and data architects, just like us, with their Amazon Redshift operations, including Redshift security. Starting from a full comparison with....
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Written by
Alon Brody
|February 22, 2017
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is a data warehousing process that uses batch processing to help business users analyze and report on data relevant to their business focus. The ETL process....
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Written by
Alon Brody
|January 09, 2017
Data Industry and Trends Data Technology
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,....
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Written by
Alon Brody
|December 20, 2016
Being Data Driven Data Technology
Microsoft Research just released SandDance, a free web-based data visualization tool.
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Written by
Alon Brody
|March 25, 2016