All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Data is automatically replicated across multiple Availability Zones for redundancy and also backed up to S3 for durability.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

While BI solutions have existed for decades, customers have told us that it takes an enormous amount of time, engineering effort, and money to bridge this gap. These solutions lack interactive data exploration and visualization capabilities, limiting most business users to canned reports and pre-selected queries.

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Because supported big data frameworks and applications can utilize the same internal memory format, they can avoid data serialization and deserialization to convert data between various formats. In contrast, Alluxio a middleware for data access - think Alluxio storage layer as fast cache.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49