All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. The nodes themselves are designed specifically for data warehousing workloads. s MPP architecture makes it easy to resize your cluster to keep pace with your storage and performance requirements.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. Magnetic disks are rapidly starting to exhibit tape-like properties and with modern workloads being increasingly random, they are becoming less and less suitable as a storage system. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. Based on this experience and learning, we built DynamoDB to be a fast, highly scalable NoSQL database to meet the needs of Internet-scale applications. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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). Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. A Few Words on Design Philosophy: Keep It Simple. Use Fully Peer-to-Peer Design for Simplicity and High Availability. Distributed Cache or In-Memory Data Grid?

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). In a partitioned massively parallel database system, the storage format and sorting algorithm may not be optimized for that operation as we are reading multiple partitions in parallel.

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