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Robert Meyer

February 17, 2021

AWS Athena Error: Query exhausted resources at this scale factor

If you’re using Amazon Athena, you may have seen these errors. About AWS Athena errors and how to deal with them.

Robert Meyer
June 2, 2021

Amazon Athena 2.0 (Presto 0.217) - What’s New

Amazon Athena engine version 2 - what’s new and big enough to call this a 2.0 release?

Robert Meyer
January 31, 2021

Athena vs. Redshift Spectrum vs. Presto

Learn some simple rules of thumb you can use to choose the best federated query engine for your company's needs.

Robert Meyer
January 31, 2021

Choosing Between The Best Federated Query Engine And a Data Warehouse

How companies should avoid creating a slow many headed federated Gorgon out of out of Athena.

Robert Meyer
June 30, 2021

Druid, ClickHouse, and Pinot vs data lakes and data warehouses (2023)

How to choose the best analytics engine for each type of analytics.

Robert Meyer
January 7, 2021

How To Support Ad Hoc Analysis - Part 1

How to support ad hoc analysis: Part 1 - The 4 requirements for an ad hoc analytics architecture

Robert Meyer
January 7, 2021

How To Support Ad Hoc Analysis - Part 2

How to support ad hoc analysis - Part 2: The right ad hoc analytics architecture

Robert Meyer
April 19, 2021

How to accelerate Looker performance on Redshift, Snowflake and BigQuery

How to accelerate Looker performance on Redshift, Snowflake and BigQuery? Short-term fixes and the long-term solutions.

Robert Meyer
March 24, 2021

How to upgrade from Tableau extracts to a fast Tableau live connection

Learn how to upgrade from Tableau extracts to Tableau live connection to deliver sub-seconds performance every time.

Robert Meyer
May 3, 2021

JSON the SQL: Choosing the best data warehouse for semi-structured data

Working with semi-structured data can be more like a Jason (horror movie) Sequel than JSON SQL.

Robert Meyer
November 17, 2021

Postgres and MySQL for Analytics - Meeting the 1 second SLA

Learn when to use Postgres, MySQL, in-memory databases, HTAP, or data warehouses to meet the 1 sec SLA in analytics.

Robert Meyer
August 19, 2021

Snowflake vs Databricks vs Firebolt

More and more, people are asking me “how do you compare Snowflake and Databricks?” We did our best to answer.

Robert Meyer
November 2, 2020

Snowflake vs Firebolt

We often get asked “what’s the difference between Firebolt and Snowflake?” and it reminds me of Frozen.

Robert Meyer
February 1, 2021

Snowflake vs. Redshift (vs. Firebolt)

 A detailed comparison of Snowflake vs. Redshift, by architecture, scalability, performance, use cases and cost.

Robert Meyer
April 6, 2021

The Double Redshift: About Redshift Alternatives and Limits

When do you need to shift from Redshift, and what are the alternatives? Learn here.

Robert Meyer
October 28, 2020

The Evolution of Data Warehouses and Query Engines on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Choosing the right data warehouse and analytics infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be confusing.

Robert Meyer
December 23, 2020

The data hitchhiker’s guide to cloud analytics

"In the beginning, there was a data mess". Don’t Panic, just read our data hitchhiker’s guide to cloud analytics.

Robert Meyer
May 4, 2021

The real meaning of a data lake

Making sense of a data lakes, delta lake, lakehouse, data warehouse and more.

Robert Meyer
October 19, 2021

Top 10 Ways to Improve Cloud Data Warehouse Performance (And how it’s done in Firebolt)

Lear the top 10 tips of how to improve your cloud data warehouse performance.

Robert Meyer
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