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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. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. 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. Comments (). Expanding the Cloud รข??

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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. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

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In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

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

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. No Server Required. All Things Distributed.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. All Things Distributed.

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Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 23 February 2011 09:43 AM. In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. Comments ().

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