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Scaling for Success: Why Scalability Is the Forefront of Modern Applications

DZone

Scalability has become the biggest buzzword in the world of Modern Applications for a good reason. In short, it is the ability to handle more data, more users, and more demand without sacrificing performance, reliability, or security. It is not uncommon to question why scalability has grabbed the attention of the masses these days.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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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What Should You Know About Graph Database’s Scalability?

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Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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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. As a result, the input data typically goes from the data source to the in-stream pipeline via a persistent buffer that allows clients to move their reading pointers back and forth.

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

All Things Distributed

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

All Things Distributed

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. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Cloud-Based Testing – A tester’s perspective

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Data is present on the cloud hence can be accessed from any location. The environment is dynamic and scalable. 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.

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