Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on ...

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Do you want to analyze data that resides in Google BigQuery as part of an R workflow? Thanks to the bigrquery R package, it’s a pretty seamless experience — once you know a couple of small tweaks ...

April 2, 2021 — In a blog post, Charlie Gu, Tech Lead, Analytics Platform; Lena Ryoo, Software Engineer, Analytics Platform; and Justin Mejorada-Pier, Engineering Manager, Analytics Platform at ...

I have a table with half a million rows that's 20GB in size. It has two columns: A uid, which is the unique key, and a blob which contains the actual data. It crunches away like crazy and takes five ...