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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing it extremely durable. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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