Ten Questions to Consider Before Choosing Cassandra

  1. Do you know what your queries will look like ? In traditional SQL you design your data model … More

Big Data is not all about Hadoop

Big Data is not Hadoop, and Hadoop is not Big Data. A lot of people are surprised that somehow Big … More

Smart IT Departments Own Their Business API and Take Ownership of Data Governance

Satya Nadella explained Microsoft’s “secret” weapon against AWS and Google: To me what matters is having the right mix of … More

Guaranteeing Delivery of Messages with AWS SQS

I wanted to scratch an itch and get feedback from the open-source community. So, I put together a little Github … More

We Need a Cloud Version of Cassandra

Google recently launched Cloud BigTable – a cloud NoSQL service that is compatible with Apache HBase API. What this means … More

Building a Supercomputer in AWS: Is it even worth it ?

The fact that Cray is still around is mind boggling. You’d think that commodity hardware and network technologies have long … More

Finding Unused Elastic Load Balancers

AWS imposes limits on the number of Elastic LoadBalancers. Before asking for a limit increase, it is worthwhile to check … More

Where AWS Elastic BeanStalk Could be Better

Amazon describes their AWS Elastic BeanStalk service as follows: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling … More

Trying to Replace Cassandra with DynamoDB ? Not so fast

In November last year I pointed out how tempted I was to replace Cassandra with DynamoDB. Since then I have … More

Why I am Tempted to Replace Cassandra With DynamoDB

I have written about Cassandra in the past. I have been using Cassandra actively for the past three years, and … More