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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 (). At werner.ly Syndication.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB. GA 28 April 2011 5.5.11-20.2 InnoDB, the default engine, is known for its excellent transactional capabilities.

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. 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. Comments (). At werner.ly

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). At werner.ly Syndication.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

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.