The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

Despite its decades-old roots, SQL is undergoing a renaissance, buoyed by SQL tool advancements in a variety of data-related tools. What Is SQL? SQL is a standardized programming language specifically designed for managing and interacting with relational databases, where information is stored in interrelated tables.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. It took two years, but a team finally won. We do all the heavy lifting.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

any real-world engineering project ;-). Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. We eventually ended up converting everything to SQLAlchemy’s lowest-level language for constructing SQL (one step away from raw SQL).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Sales teams cost money, and of course, they also deliver another layer of organizational complexity. But because of the human costs of a sales team, it makes sense to optimize for quality in B2B. So the process in B2B looks a bit like this (simplified): Visitor → MQL → SQL → customer. Longer Sales Cycles and Micro-Conversions.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Alternatives include Amazon Redshift , Snowflake , Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse , Apache Hive , etc. The solution is to give every lead and every purchase a userID (like an encrypted email), to pull CRM and Google Analytics data into your BigQuery data warehouse, and then—with a simple SQL query—join the two tables. BI engines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. The actual directory itself is straightforward. E, How is WoW sharded?

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