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exagolo

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About exagolo

CTO at Exasol

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    I believe Karma solely comes from upvotes for comments minus downvotes. Submissions don't count.

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    In case you have a single table with time-series data, then Clickhouse will perform typically better. It's very much optimized for this type of use cases. Once you are joining tabl…

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    I think the issue in the tests was the lack of a proper resource management of Clickhouse that led to queries failing under pressure. Although I have to admit that the level of pre…

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    You mean the "execution plan" for your queries? Ideally, those types of decisions are automatically done by the database.

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    Traditional database benchmarks focus on throughput and latency – how many queries per second can be processed, how execution time changes as hardware resources increase. This benc…

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    The tool is very flexible and you can create your own benchmarks with your own data. This is always the best benchmark, as any public benchmark will have a certain bias.

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    Another alternative is Exasol that is factors (>10x) faster than Clickhouse and scales much better for complex analytics workloads that joins data. There is a free edition for pers…

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    For the bigger tasks, Exasol might also be a very neat option for you. We have a free personal edition that can scale regarding data volumes, #servers (MPP architecture) and comple…

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    If not having to adjust queries is a major driver for your considerations, then I would highly recommend looking at SQLGlot ( https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot ), a transpiler tha…

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    Are you using a transpiler technology such as SQLGlot for the multi-vendor SQL generation?

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    I do agree. I still think that the article articulates a very interesting thought... the better the input for a problem, the better the output. This applies both to LLMs but also f…

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    When people complain about large language models, I often feel like they're complaining about their coworkers without realizing it...

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    Agreed, and it's an amazingly well-maintained GitHub repo: https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot Big kudos to Toby and the team.

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    I do agree. SQL is simply an access API for so many systems, and nice as it's a declarative language rather than a normal programming language. LLMs are super powerful to express q…

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    For translation between dialects, you could use projects such as SQLGlot. The advantage of SQL is the standardization over many decades (yes, I know that it's still a mess with the…

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    MariaDB Exa is engineered for extreme scale, complex queries and high performance on multi-terabyte datasets. This approach ensures every MariaDB customer has the right analytical …