Data Science and AI with a SQL Server 2022 Data Lakehouse

Data Science and AI with a SQL Server 2022 Data Lakehouse

Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is one of the most commonly implemented enterprise relational databases. Many of the world's most successful companies, regardless of vertical, have significant SQL Server deployments. Thousands of companies have relied on SQL Server for decades. Microsoft has made great strides over the past decade in embracing open-source and standards-compliant technologies. The result is that

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Migrating from Hadoop to a Cloud-Ready Architecture for Data Analytics

Migrating from Hadoop to a Cloud-Ready Architecture for Data Analytics

This post was a collaboration between Kevin Lambrecht of UCE Systems and Raghav Karnam The cloud operating model and specifically Kubernetes have become the standard for large scale infrastructure today. More importantly, they are evolving at an exceptional pace with material impacts to data science, data analytics and AI/ML. This transition has a significant impact on the Hadoop ecosystem.

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MinIO and Apache Arrow Using R

MinIO and Apache Arrow Using R

Arrow here, Arrow there, Arrow everywhere. Seems like currently you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an article or blog post about Apache Arrow. Most seem to be addressing a developer audience and are based on a Python and Spark style development platform. Today I’m going to write about using Apache Arrow with MinIO from the

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