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Automated Horizontal Scaling with Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database, a new capability supporting automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database.
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AWS Announces GA of DocumentDB Elastic Clusters
At the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of DocumentDB Elastic Clusters, a service that manages the elasticity and sharding for MongoDB workloads.
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Data Preparation Pipelines: Strategy, Options and Tools
Data preparation is an important aspect of data processing and analytics use cases. Business analysts and data scientists spend about 80% of their time gathering and preparing the data rather than analyzing it or developing machine learning models. Kelly Stirman spoke last week at Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference about the data preparation best practices.
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VMware Releases SQLFire 1.0
VMware releases SQLFire 1.0 a distributed SQL database geared towards high availability and horizontal scalability which offers table replication, table partitioning and parallel execution of queries.
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JBoss Releases Hibernate 4.0
JBoss Releases Hibernate 4.0 which comes with Multi-tenancy support, the introduction of a standard mechanism for writing Hibernate extensions, initial refactorings towards OSGI and several other cleanups.
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Windows Azure Gets Node.js, SQL Azure Federation, Increased DB Limits
Windows Azure team announced major updates including support for Node.js, better scalability for SQL Azure through Federation and higher individual DB Size limits (upto 150 GB), a limited preview for Hadoop and more.
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Facebook on Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and A/B Testing
The Hadoop Summit of 2010 included presentations from a number of large scale users of Hadoop and related technologies. Notably, Facebook presented a keynote and details information about their use of Hive for analytics. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's VP of Engineering delivered a keynote describing the scale of their data processing with Hadoop.
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Databases Roundup: Data Sharding for ActiveRecord and Faster Postgres IO
In this databases roundup we take a look at DataFabric, FiveRun's recently open sourced data sharding plug-in for ActiveRecord. Also: a look at speeding up Postgres data access using the asynchronous client API and Ruby 1.9's Fibers.