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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. ” In those early years, the company reflected not only an innovative spirit but also a spirit of community-mindedness.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. I'm excited to see the new and innovative use cases coming from our customers in Hong Kong and across Asia Pacific, all enabled by AWS.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team.

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Elastic Beanstalk a la Node - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. These developers typically use EC2 instances combined with one of our database services to create web services used for data retrievals or to create dynamic mobile interfaces. s very impressive to see the innovation and scale that Elastic Beanstalk can provide even for small teams.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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The Future of Open Source is Polarized

Percona

These companies include Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Sentry, and MariaDB, which developed this license in 2013. While open source software is wonderful in providing tremendous value in allowing permissionless innovation, it is not immune to the freeloader problem – there will always be some that take more than they give back.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Brunamonti, 2013. Preslar, 2013. Levin, 2013. Fawcett, 2013.

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