Cloud Models
Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse – an overview
Snowflake, a quick overview, from their documentation and some project usage experience. Snowflake is a columnar data warehouse and data integration platform S…
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AWS TechnologyAWS RDS a simple overview
AWS RDS is a managed DBaaS. Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. It provides …
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Application TransformationMonoliths, good and bad
Monolithic applications are designed to handle multiple related tasks. They’re typically complex applications that encompass several tightly coupled functions.…
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DataDatabase Backup Simple Overview
There are many alternatives to backing up a database. A summary is given below. Database Backup Solutions Database backup solutions are two kinds: Database Bac…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Athena and Redshift. Description and Use Cases.
What is Amazon Athena? Amazon Athena is a cloud-based query service for large-scale data analysis. Buyers of the product can use standard SQL to prepare and an…
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Application TransformationBig Data. Benefits. Challenges.
Most Big Data projects fail. There are many reasons for this, usually around the business reason for the project, and data quality (along with a lack of skills…
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DataDatabase Types and their Use Cases summarised in a Table
Database Types and their Use Cases summarised in a Table Database Type Examples Pros Cons Use cases Relational Databases Oracle, MySQL, SQL, DB2 etc. Organize …
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DataDatabases and different data varieties and structures: Relational or SQL, NoSQL, Graph.
Databases and different data varieties and structures: Relational or SQL, NoSQL, Graph. Given the wide variety of data sources, data processes and use cases ar…
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