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Reflections on Apache Drill

Reflections on Apache Drill

I have been playing with Apache Drill for quite some time now. In layman’s terms, Apache Drill …

Rethinking the database with drop-in replacements

Rethinking the database with drop-in replacements

We are observing a new era in database technology space, drop-in replacements with order of …

Visualising CloudFormation Stack

Visualising CloudFormation Stack

If you work with AWS CloudFormation on a day-to-day basis, I think you might be interested in …

DynamoDB or Aurora

DynamoDB or Aurora

Aurora is a new offering from Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is advertised as drop-in …

Rise of Elastic Data Warehouse and Database Services

Rise of Elastic Data Warehouse and Database Services

Currently the majority of cloud based database and data warehouse services are provisioned with …

Requirements for stream processing architecture

Requirements for stream processing architecture

In 2005 Stonebraker et al. published a paper that outlined 8 key requirements for stream processing …

MVC for data science is here

MVC for data science is here

For those who are not familiar with MVC (Model–view–controller), MVC is a software architectural …

Multimodel Database or Polyglot Persistence

Multimodel Database or Polyglot Persistence

In a recent InfoWorld article, FoundationDB’s Stephen Pimentel explained the rise of the …

Tag management: Focus on SSL- Security, Structure and Latency

Tag management: Focus on SSL- Security, Structure and Latency

A recent white paper from Ghostery provides some interesting best practices for managing your …