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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

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The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Strict fault-tolerance is a principal requirement for the engine.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.

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

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After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. 9GAG has a small team of nine people, including three engineers to support the business, and uses AWS to service their global visitors.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

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Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

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NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This user-oriented nature had vast implications: The end user is often interested in aggregated reporting information, not in separate data items, and SQL pays a lot of attention to this aspect. 1) Denormalization.

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

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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.

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