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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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. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Text search.

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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.

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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. Additionally, it allows them to keep their data inside of Brazil. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. All Things Distributed.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

The goal is to find a set of the most promising candidates who should receive the resource in order to maximize the overall performance of the targeted group of customers. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The resource can be homogenous (i.e. Applications. Applications.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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