This Teradata system was not named after a real animal.
What is Simba?
100
This is what ACID stands for.
What is Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability?
100
This company allowed users to make micropayments on the Internet from a postpaid mobile phone by charging the mobile operator. In addition to the technology, PayPal also gained a CEO.
What is Zong?
100
With over 1000 non-batch accesses in ~3 hours, this table is the most accessed table on Simba.
What is dim_cust?
100
The BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) recently added this member nation to become BRICS.
What is South Africa?
200
This Hadoop cluster was not named after a fictional animal character.
What is Helios?
200
As opposed to a relational database, this type of database treats data as a single opaque collection which may have different fields for every record.
What is a key-value database/store/nosql database?
200
This company is a leading digital money transfer or remittance provider that allows consumers to send money, pay bills, and reload mobile phones from the United States to 33 countries.
It was bought for $1.09 billion.
What is Xoom?
200
User queries which included this table pulled over 5TB of data in ~3 hours.
What is dw_payment_sent_adhoc?
200
You can buy one of this stock for just $200,000.
What is Berkshire Hathaway (BRK)?
300
This tool allows you to manage your TD workspace, import data from file, schedule SQL queries, and even change your password.
What is OAP?
300
This is the name given when a computational problem is divided into many tasks, each of which is solved by one or more computers.
What is distributed computing?
300
This company helps online businesses process credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, recurring billing, and credit card storage.
It was bought for $800 million.
What is Braintree?
300
Besides cust_id and audit columns (cre_ts, etc.), this column shows up in 122 tables and is the most common column found in pp_tables.
What is CURR_CODE?
300
The Rial is the least valuable currency in the world. One dollar can buy ~30,000 Rial. It is the official currency of this country.
What is Iran?
400
This platform combines massive amounts of data from clickstream logs, transactions, and routine business events into business objects that allow analysts to easily extract patterns of events across billions of rows of data.
What is EAP (Event Analytics Platform)?
400
This is the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Such algorithms operate by building a model from example inputs in order to make data-driven predictions or decisions.
What is machine learning?
400
This company was a privately held Israeli start-up specializing in online risk management and fraud management systems.
It was bought for $169 million.
What is Fraud Sciences?
400
Besides cust_id, this is the most popular primary index.
What is payment_transid?
400
'Paper currency' in the US is composed of 25% linen and 75% of this material.
What is cotton?
500
This product maintains a Single Source of Truth for all PayPal transactions, leveraging OIS to provide low latency, near real time data for Merchant Reporting, Admin, Risk, Marketing, and other teams.
What is EDS (Enterprise Data Store)?
500
In programming, not all objects have equal rights (such as can be passed as a parameter to a function). Those objects that have the most rights are called this.
What are first-class citizens?
500
This company developed the technology to capture credit card information using just your smartphone camera.
At over 11 million CPU used daily, this is the most productive user in EDW today.
What is pp_risk_qh_ops_batch?
500
Gasoline costs around $1/litre. A bottle of Dom Perignon vintage champagne costs $300/litre. This liquid ordinary people use everyday costs over $5,000/litre.