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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. A typical example of pipelining is shown below: In this example, the hash join algorithm is employed to join four relations: R1, S1, S2, and S3 using 3 processors.

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

All Things Distributed

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Here are some examples of how our UK customers are using the AWS platform: Hot Startups – Shazam , Hailo , Omnifone , Yplan , SwiftKey , Aire , GoSquared.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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Cloud-Based Testing – A tester’s perspective

Testsigma

May pose security issues, since the data is handed over to a third party during testing. Requires very good internet connectivity. No internet connectivity is required for testing since it is executed locally. Examples are Agile testing, TDD, automation testing, regression testing, etc. Traditional testing advantages.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

All Things Distributed

Here are the benefits of a comprehensive platform, with customer examples: A connected platform to sense the business environment. Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices.

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