When using Amazon Redshift, distribution style plays an important role in optimising the table design for best performance. In a nutshell, table's distribution style dictates how the data is distributed across Redshift node and slices. A key objective is to avoid the data...
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...
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...
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...
In a recent InfoWorld article, FoundationDB's Stephen Pimentel explained the rise of the multimodel database. A multimodel database uses a single data store to support multiple data models. For instance, FoundationDB tries to map documents, graphs, and relational tables to a key-value data...
