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Slide Share’s full of useful knowledge

Posted on February 20, 2017 by

Best practices for PySpark programming Programming in Spark using PySpark from Mostafa Elzoghbi History of SQL and all the advanced features over the last 30 years among big vendors. Modern SQL in Open Source and Commercial Databases from Markus Winand … Continue reading →

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Re-Blog: 10 Risks that Beset Data Programmes

Posted on February 13, 2017 by

Credits to: Peter James Thomas: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-risks-beset-data-programmes-peter-james-thomas Not establishing a dedicated team. The team never escapes from “the day job” or legacy / BAU issues; the past prevents the future from being built. Staff lack skills and prior experience of data … Continue reading →

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Why PostgreSQL is the better MySQL

Posted on August 31, 2016 by

Ever since MySql has been purchased by Oracle, it has been lagging in development in the open source space. MariaDB , Percona, Aurora are spin offs that try to address it.  MySql is the original M of the LAMP stack. … Continue reading →

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Some Google Trends Research of Big Data Vendors

Posted on August 27, 2016 by

https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_nrtr/680_RC25/embed_loader.js trends.embed.renderExploreWidget(“TIMESERIES”, {“comparisonItem”:[{“keyword”:”Cloudera”,”geo”:””,”time”:”2008-07-27 2016-08-27″},{“keyword”:”mapR”,”geo”:””,”time”:”2008-07-27 2016-08-27″},{“keyword”:”hortonworks”,”geo”:””,”time”:”2008-07-27 2016-08-27″},{“keyword”:”hbase”,”geo”:””,”time”:”2008-07-27 2016-08-27″},{“keyword”:”bigtable”,”geo”:””,”time”:”2008-07-27 2016-08-27″}],”category”:0,”property”:””}, {}); Cloudera’s peaking EMR’s actually declining. https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_nrtr/680_RC25/embed_loader.js trends.embed.renderExploreWidget(“TIMESERIES”, {“comparisonItem”:[{“keyword”:”/m/05ynw”,”geo”:””,”time”:”all”},{“keyword”:”/m/04y3k”,”geo”:””,”time”:”all”},{“keyword”:”/m/0120vr”,”geo”:””,”time”:”all”},{“keyword”:”/m/0120tv”,”geo”:””,”time”:”all”},{“keyword”:”/m/01vw9z”,”geo”:””,”time”:”all”}],”category”:0,”property”:””}, {}); The decline of the web 2.0 Relational Data Stores. Looks like RDS peaked at web 2.0 when google ipo’ed. https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_nrtr/680_RC25/embed_loader.js https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_nrtr/680_RC25/embed_loader.js trends.embed.renderExploreWidget(“TIMESERIES”, … Continue reading →

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