Category: Database

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. This post is co-written with Dr. Quan Hoang Nguyen, CTO at Fantom Foundation. Here at Fantom Foundation (Fantom), we have developed a high performance, highly scalable, and secure smart contract platform. It’s […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all of your data using standard SQL. Tens of thousands of customers today rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse. You can […]

Nowadays many customers are following a multi-cloud strategy. They might choose to use various cloud-managed services, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instances, to perform data analytics tasks, but still use traditional extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools to integrate and process the data. However, traditional ETL tools may […]

This is post is co-authored by Manish Mehra, Anirudh Vohra, Sidrah Sayyad, and Abhishek I S (from ZS), and Parnab Basak (from AWS). The team at ZS collaborated closely with AWS to build a modern, cloud-native data orchestration platform. ZS is a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare and beyond. We […]

In legacy relational database management systems, data is stored in several complex data types, such XML, JSON, BLOB, or CLOB. This data might contain valuable information that is often difficult to transform into insights, so you might be looking for ways to load and use this data in a modern cloud data warehouse such as […]

Epos Now provides point of sale and payment solutions to over 40,000 hospitality and retailers across 71 countries. Their mission is to help businesses of all sizes reach their full potential through the power of cloud technology, with solutions that are affordable, efficient, and accessible. Their solutions allow businesses to leverage actionable insights, manage their […]

This is the sixth in a series of posts. We’re excited to share dozens of new features to automate your schema conversion; preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications; accelerate query performance; and potentially simplify your migrations from legacy data warehouses to Amazon Redshift. Check out all the previous posts in this series: […]

This post was co-authored by Vadym Dolin, Data Architect at SumUp. In their own words, SumUp is a leading financial technology company, operating across 35 markets on three continents. SumUp helps small businesses be successful by enabling them to accept card payments in-store, in-app, and online, in a simple, secure, and cost-effective way. Today, SumUp […]

Plugsurfing aligns the entire car charging ecosystem—drivers, charging point operators, and carmakers—within a single platform. The over 1 million drivers connected to the Plugsurfing Power Platform benefit from a network of over 300,000 charging points across Europe. Plugsurfing serves charging point operators with a backend cloud software for managing everything from country-specific regulations to providing […]

In this second post of a multi-part series, we share best practices for choosing the optimal Amazon Redshift cluster, data architecture, converting stored procedures, compatible functions and queries widely used for SQL conversions, and recommendations for optimizing the length of data types for table columns. You can check out the first post of this series […]