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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

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Scalable MicroService Architecture

VoltDB

Think of a monolithic application eCommerce application (albeit, super simplified scope) that has the following modules: Each of these functions could have different utilization levels and to have an entire application to scale to the maximum level is going to be consuming resources incongruent to utilization. Real-World Example Problem.

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Scalable MicroService Architecture

VoltDB

Think of a monolithic application eCommerce application (albeit, super simplified scope) that has the following modules: Each of these functions could have different utilization levels and to have an entire application to scale to the maximum level is going to be consuming resources incongruent to utilization. Real-World Example Problem.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For ecommerce applications, this evolution has created new capabilities that dramatically improve the experience for online shoppers.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. For ecommerce applications, this evolution has created new capabilities that dramatically improve the experience for online shoppers.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Non-relational databases: Instead of tables, non-relational (NoSQL) databases use document-based data storage, column-oriented storage, and graph databases.

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Use Parallel Analysis – Not Parallel Query – for Fast Data Access and Scalable Computing Power

ScaleOut Software

Whether it’s ecommerce shopping carts, financial trading data, IoT telemetry, or airline reservations, these data sets need fast, reliable access for large, mission-critical workloads. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.