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

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

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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. In addition, MariaDB provides optimal scalability options, making it ideal for growing workloads. Contact us to learn more! What is MySQL?

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

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For example, an analytics application would work best with unstructured image files stored in a non-relational graph database. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent has moved to the cloud to take advantage of the low, pay-as you-go, cost model and also the flexibility and scalability the cloud provides. These sensors create massive amounts of geological data.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

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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).