Enterprise Customer Data Platform - Treasure Data Blog - Part 40

November 16, 2015

Postgres + Presto = Prestogres, My Nifty Hack for Putting Them Together

When I co-founded TD four years ago, our primary database was MySQL. Since then, I have grown to love “the other” open source RDBMS: PostgreSQL. There are many reasons to love PostgreSQL, and I plan to share my thoughts on Postgres’ internals this......

November 6, 2015

Spark Community By the Numbers: A Few Surprises

Without a doubt, Apache Spark is taking the data science world by storm. An open-source, in-memory distributed data processing engine that can run atop Hadoop, Cassandra, and others, Spark has become a welcomed addition to the data scientist toolbox. Growing in popularity, Spark is not without it...

November 5, 2015

We Treasure PyData. See you in NYC!

TD has quite a bit of history with Python and PyData. Yuu, one of our devops engineers, is the creator of pyenv, a popular Python environment manager, and one of our backend engineers, Keisuke, has written pandas-td and luigi-td to make the......

October 26, 2015

Announcing Data Tanks: Faster Reporting and Unlimited Connectivity

Data Tanks provide easy access to your aggregated metrics through convenient, fully hosted data marts on TD's core platform. They can be used to drive a variety of external business intelligence and visualization applications without the hassle of......

October 8, 2015

Redshift is 400x Bigger than MySQL Yet MySQL is More Popular

The Amazon Redshift COPY Command Guide is now available! There are good reasons for the hype around Amazon Redshift. Redshift is blazing fast and not that much more expensive than MySQL or PostgreSQL, the traditional mainstay of data engineers. But is Amazon Redshift really becoming predominant i...

October 7, 2015

Treasure Data brings you: The Amazon Redshift COPY command cheatsheet

Although it’s getting easier, ramping up on the COPY command to import tables into Redshift can become very tricky and error-prone. Following the accordion-like hyperlinked Redshift documentation to get a complete command isn’t exactly straighforward, either......

October 6, 2015

AWS, SFDC and Marketo Data Connectors Released, Data Tanks in Beta for Broader BI Connectivity

This year’s AWS re:Invent brings many new announcements and features from TD. Specifically, we released AWS Data Connectors (S3 and Redshift) and SaaS Data Connectors (Marketo and Salesforce) for general availability and Data Tanks for private beta......

October 1, 2015

Treasure Data Presents: Data Driven Sales That Scale – Building AI That Searches, Learns, and Sells

The LeadGenius and TD meetup in mid-September was another hit in our SVDE meetup series! The September 16th event, featuring Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at LeadGenius, Anand Kulkarni, drew about 22 data scientists, and was hosted......

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