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Re:Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for ... by x3n0ph3n3 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:04PM (#32325435)
I'm actually one of their customers.
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Re:Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for ... by 37 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:03PM (#32327163)
So it's not data collection (similar to Google Analytics), just the query part?
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Re:Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for ... by x3n0ph3n3 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:40AM (#32327722)
We use it to query data across multiple data sources, e.g. Elasticsearch, AWS Redshift, and S3.
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Re:Leaving Facebook/Meta was the best thing we could do for ... by bitsondatadev on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:17AM (#32327620)
It’s a query engine that can talk to multiple databases and run join queries across tables from multiple sources. It also runs as a faster alternative to Hive.
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