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A Romp Through Database History (w/ Postgres co-creator Mike Stonebraker + Andy Palmer)

The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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Data Representation Trumps Hardware Power

Representing data in a query-friendly way can allow a small, inexpensive cluster to outperform a multi-million dollar configuration, debunking the myth of needing powerful hardware for performance. This approach, focused on shared-nothing hardware and cheap commodity hardware, demonstrated the ability to run queries faster than a much larger setup, leading to disbelief from those accustomed to traditional hardware expectations.

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