All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

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.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

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. Some key features and functionalities of MySQL include: Support for multiple storage engines, allowing users to choose what is suitable for their needs.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Non-relational databases: Instead of tables, non-relational (NoSQL) databases use document-based data storage, column-oriented storage, and graph databases.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node).

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

AWS also applies the same customer oriented pricing strategy: as the AWS platform grows, our scale enables us to operate more efficiently, and we choose to pass the benefits back to customers in the form of cost savings. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. At werner.ly

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The broad Amazon EC2 customer base brings such diversity in workload and utilization patterns that it allows us to operate Amazon EC2 with extreme efficiency. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Different Purchasing Models.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63