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Dremio makes a data lakehouse platform for running SQL analytics directly on data lake storage, often paired with Apache Iceberg tables.
Jan Gilg told Business Insider the SaaS sell-off was an overreaction and that SAP is changing how it charges. The budget squeeze he describes is better documented than the repricing he promises.
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A distinct-value sketch is thousands of bytes and a delete bitmap has no fixed size, which is why Iceberg keeps both in a separate file, and why a bad join plan is a statistics problem rather than a rewriting one.
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Native geometry and geography types in format v3, with matching Parquet 2.11 logical types underneath, give a shape column its own bounding boxes and a CRS that travels with the data. The second half is the part worth migrating for.
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Lock-in migrated from the model to the runtime that holds your tool grants, approval rules and learned state. Six specifications aim to make that runtime's contents portable, and half of them are one person's drafts.
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Block, xAI and Nous all landed on the agent as a persistent identity. That identity still lives in whatever file the harness picked, and the switching bill is now memory.
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A dev.to post argues that recurring natural-language analysis confounds the metric with the instrument. The remedy is a frozen query, reviewed as a diff, with the model on either side of it.
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