[Haskell-cafe] data analysis question

[Tobias Pflug]

>
> Big enough machine with enough memory and it's fine. I used to keep a 
> job queue with a billion rows on MySQL at a gig long ago. Could do it 
> with PostgreSQL pretty easily too. On your personal work machine? I dunno.
>
> Not trying to steer you away from using Haskell here by any means, but 
> if you can process your data in a SQL database efficiently, that's 
> often pretty optimal in terms of speed and ease of use until you start 
> doing more sophisticated analysis. I don't have a lot of experience in 
> data analysis but I knew people to do some preliminary slicing/dicing 
> in SQL before moving onto a building a custom model for understanding 
> the data.

I guess I was just curious what a sensible approach using Haskell would 
look like and i'll play
around with what I know now. If this was from my working place i'd just 
put it in a database with
enough horse power but it's just my curiosity in my spare time, alas..

thank you for your input.
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