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

AWS Big Data

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open source frameworks, supporting open table file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. Chuho Chang is a Software Development Engineer with Amazon Athena. Pathik Shah is a Sr.

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Data Privacy and Internet Safety Tips for College Students

Smart Data Collective

One recent study from the University of Maryland found that there is a data breach every 39 seconds. The threat of data breaches has become a lot greater in recent years as more businesses and consumers become dependent on big data. The proliferation of big data has made digital privacy concerns much more significant.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

This step-by-step guide to designing a high-functioning organization helps you understand four team types and interaction patterns and helps you to type and build it. “It By defining team types, their fundamental interactions, and the science behind them, you learn how to better model your organizations according to these definitions.

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Simply Install: Spark (Cluster Mode)

Insight

Here is a more detailed picture of what our setup will look like at the EC2 level and how you will interact with Spark and run your jobs on it. bin/scala to provide /usr/bin/scala (scala) in auto mode $ scala -version Scala code runner version 2.11.12 -- Copyright 2002-2017, LAMP/EPFL Please make note of the Scala version here.

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.