Functions like FILTER, SORTBY, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP, and VSTACK transform static grids into real-time data systems.

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MATLAB R2016b tall arrays can provide data from sources that range from a database to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). MATLAB R2006b introduced the concept of distributed arrays. This allowed ...