All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

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 ().

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

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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. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Critical features of MariaDB include robust security features like encryption at rest and in transit, user authentication, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as high-performance query execution, advanced indexing techniques, and replication, clustering, and sharding, ensuring scalability and high availability. What is MySQL?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

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.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104