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WookieRushing
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WookieRushing
6y ago
Then it performs the action, what else would it do?
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I took a quick look at Holochain and its got the regular set of better than bitcoin/ethereum claims that most alt coins say. Its saying its more efficient and safer to use than other blockchain languages. Now these are really big claim
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6y ago
It is basically federated SQL to get all the data you need into mem. Then it does a bunch of techniques, one of witch is map reduce, to do computation. Its like you took a distributed SQL server and made it never have its own storage outsid
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WookieRushing
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Presto can do shuffles when needed. But it has a smaller max size shuffle than Spark typically because everything has to stay in RAM
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Its basically a compute engine that maintains all state in memory and does distributed computations similarly to Spark. The big thing it adds is that it isn't stuck to any storage format. It has a connector that lets you load data into
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7y ago
RPC systems come in many different levels like programming languages. While there are low level RPC systems which are just a simple layer around web requests, there are others that do a lot more. They can do retries, host selection, and sta
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Having their own file format could really help them out as it lets them be sole reader and writer of it. File formats for warehouses are generally a little out of date in terms of performance because it requires all the compute engines to b
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7y ago
The benefits of using googles internal tools isn’t what this paper is mainly about though. They do benefit from it but much more of the paper is explaining how extremely careful caching and having a deep control over the file format allows