Amazon today announced Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) - a fully managed Elasticsearch service which can support your real-time distributed search requirements. I am not sure about others, but for me a this is a big deal and can be a game changer. I have...
I have been playing with Apache Drill for quite some time now. In layman's terms, Apache Drill is SQL query engine which can perform queries against any type of data store - in particular any non-relational data store. Apache Drill's ability...
We are observing a new era in database technology space, drop-in replacements with order of magnitude improvement in performance over their counterparts. First Amazon Aurora and now Scylla DB. Although the concept of drop-in replacements is not something new but most recently these substitutes started...
If you work with AWS CloudFormation on a day-to-day basis, I think you might be interested in visualising your AWS CloudFormation templates. CloudFormation stack visualization can be quite handy for lifecycle management of your AWS deployment. In addition, visualization can be immensely helpful in change...
Aurora is a new offering from Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). It is advertised as drop-in replacement for the MySQL - full compatibility with MySQL 5.6. Aurora is designed for fault-tolerance, availability and storage elasticity. It is a relational database and a highly cost...