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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Starting today, the Athena SQL engine uses a cost-based optimizer (CBO), a new feature that uses table and column statistics stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog as part of the table’s metadata. By using these statistics, CBO improves query run plans and boosts the performance of queries run in Athena.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

I mention this here because there was a lot of overlap between current industry data governance needs and what the scientific community is working toward for scholarly infrastructure. The gist is, leveraging metadata about research datasets, projects, publications, etc., 2018 – Global reckoning about data governance, aka “Oops!