What is BlazingSQL?
It's a GPU accelerated SQL engine built on top of the RAPIDS ecosystem. RAPIDS is based on the Apache Arrow columnar memory format, and cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and otherwise manipulating data.
BlazingSQL is a tool in the Big Data Tools category of a tech stack.
BlazingSQL is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to BlazingSQL's open source repository on GitHub
BlazingSQL Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to BlazingSQL?
Apache Spark
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JavaScript
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
