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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Hadoop is quickly becoming the preferred tool for this type of large scale data analytics.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

In fact, the opposite is true, thanks to an active and vibrant global community of developers who work continuously to improve open source software. Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Amazon Import/Export is an important tool for customers to accelerate moving large amounts of data into the AWS storage systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. At werner.ly Syndication.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our South American customers. At werner.ly

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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