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 redistribution during...
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 store. Applications...