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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB รข??

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. You can then off load the management and scaling of your database and application stack to Amazon RDS and AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and focus on adding value to your customers. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

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Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

All Things Distributed

The original Dynamo paper inspired many database solutions, which are now popularly referred to as NoSQL databases. These databases trade off complex querying capabilities and consistency for scale and availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

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SQL Server 2016 โ€“ It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database. Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instance have managed backups.

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Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug. Comments (). In short, DynamoDB is taking off.

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