The Evolution of Precomputation Technology and its Role in Data Analytics

"Key Takeaways

• Precomputation is a common technique used in information retrieval and analysis, including index, materialized view, cube and more.
• It’s a trade-off between time and space, query speed and update flexibility, online processing and offline processing.
• A few megatrends that make precomputation essential to the big data era.
• A real example of 200x acceleration of an OLAP query using different types of precomputation.
• In the near future, how AI and automation will improve precomputation and how that impacts the TCO of big data systems."

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