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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server

SQL Performance

There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. There are sadly no retail-build trace flags that report informational messages about batch mode bitmaps or pushed-down filter compilation. Features specific to earlier versions will mentioned inline as we go along.

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