The move to the data lakehouse was full of promises—speed, agility, and cost-effective query performance, to name a few. Yet, many enterprises find it difficult to realize all these benefits at once; ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

If you’ve always been in awe of folks using the Google Search Console API to do cool things, this article is a good read for you. You can use BigQuery with the GSC bulk data export to get some of the ...

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...

The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it. Improving ...

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