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Optimization Strategies for Iceberg Tables

Cloudera

This blog discusses a few problems that you might encounter with Iceberg tables and offers strategies on how to optimize them in each of those scenarios. Problem with too many snapshots Everytime a write operation occurs on an Iceberg table, a new snapshot is created. See Write properties.

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

Systems of this nature generate a huge number of small objects and need attention to compact them to a more optimal size for faster reading, such as 128 MB, 256 MB, or 512 MB. As of this writing, only the optimize-data optimization is supported. Note the last four newly added configurations in the following statement.

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Optimize checkpointing in your Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink applications with buffer debloating and unaligned checkpoints – Part 2

AWS Big Data

We’ve already discussed how checkpoints, when triggered by the job manager, signal all source operators to snapshot their state, which is then broadcasted as a special record called a checkpoint barrier. When barriers from all upstream partitions have arrived, the sub-task takes a snapshot of its state.

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Use Amazon Athena with Spark SQL for your open-source transactional table formats

AWS Big Data

These formats enable ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions, upserts, and deletes, and advanced features such as time travel and snapshots that were previously only available in data warehouses. It will never remove files that are still required by a non-expired snapshot.

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Implement data warehousing solution using dbt on Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

In this post, we look into an optimal and cost-effective way of incorporating dbt within Amazon Redshift. In an optimal environment, we store the credentials in AWS Secrets Manager and retrieve them. Snapshots – These implements type-2 slowly changing dimensions (SCDs) over mutable source tables.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service Under the Hood : OpenSearch Optimized Instances(OR1)

AWS Big Data

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently introduced the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family (OR1), which delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing memory optimized instances in internal benchmarks, and uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to provide 11 9s of durability.

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CRM’s Have a Big Data Technical Debt Problem: Here’s How to Fix It

Smart Data Collective

Metazoa is the company behind the Salesforce ecosystem’s top software toolset for org management, Metazoa Snapshot. Created in 2006, Snapshot was the first CRM management solution designed specifically for Salesforce and was one of the first Apps to be offered on the Salesforce AppExchange. Inactive users.

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