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Published inAug 2014
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Tanmay Deshpande
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Tanmay Deshpande

Tanmay Deshpande is a Hadoop and big data evangelist. He currently works with Schlumberger as a Big Data Architect in Pune, India. He has interest in a wide range of technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Mahout, Sqoop, Java, cloud computing, and so on. He has vast experience in application development in various domains, such as oil and gas, finance, telecom, manufacturing, security, and retail. He enjoys solving machine-learning problems and spends his time reading anything that he can get his hands on. He has great interest in open source technologies and has been promoting them through his talks. Before Schlumberger, he worked with Symantec, Lumiata, and Infosys. Through his innovative thinking and dynamic leadership, he has successfully completed various projects. He regularly blogs on his website http://hadooptutorials.co.in. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deshpandetanmay/. He has also authored Mastering DynamoDB, published in August 2014, DynamoDB Cookbook, published in September 2015, Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook-Second Edition, published in March 2016, Hadoop: Data Processing and Modelling, published in August, 2016, and Hadoop Blueprints, published in September 2016, all by Packt Publishing.
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Integrating with AWS Redshift


As I keep on saying, this is a data era and every piece of data keeps on telling us something. Acting on this need, Amazon has introduced Redshift, which is a data warehouse as a service that allows you to dump your data on cloud with minimum cost. Redshift has power query language that allows us to drill TBs and PBs of data in seconds. It helps users to analyze data cheaper and faster.

Now, you must be wondering how this tool could help someone who has his application database as DynamoDB. Well, the answer is quite simple, most of the organization tries to keep their application database size easily controllable. This means that they tend to purge or archive old/stale data periodically. In such cases, it is good to have a data warehousing solution in cloud itself. So, you can keep your application live data on DynamoDB and use Redshift to dump old data to archive and analyze.

Unlike DynamoDB, Redshift is a SQL-based data warehousing tool. It comes with a powerful...

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Tanmay Deshpande

Tanmay Deshpande is a Hadoop and big data evangelist. He currently works with Schlumberger as a Big Data Architect in Pune, India. He has interest in a wide range of technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Mahout, Sqoop, Java, cloud computing, and so on. He has vast experience in application development in various domains, such as oil and gas, finance, telecom, manufacturing, security, and retail. He enjoys solving machine-learning problems and spends his time reading anything that he can get his hands on. He has great interest in open source technologies and has been promoting them through his talks. Before Schlumberger, he worked with Symantec, Lumiata, and Infosys. Through his innovative thinking and dynamic leadership, he has successfully completed various projects. He regularly blogs on his website http://hadooptutorials.co.in. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deshpandetanmay/. He has also authored Mastering DynamoDB, published in August 2014, DynamoDB Cookbook, published in September 2015, Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook-Second Edition, published in March 2016, Hadoop: Data Processing and Modelling, published in August, 2016, and Hadoop Blueprints, published in September 2016, all by Packt Publishing.
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