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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

The gist is, leveraging metadata about research datasets, projects, publications, etc., Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. then building machine learning models to recommend methods and potential collaborators to scientists.