While I have long moved on from PostgreSQL, I continue to follow its development. I am glad to see Citus grow from a small startup with growing pains into an important part of Microsoft.
Tag: bigdata
Teleportation can corrupt your data
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Operations costs are the Achille’s heel of NoSQL
NoSQL databases scale by adding more commodity servers. With more commodity servers come increased costs and complexities. Some NoSQL systems are better at this than others and need less.
We Live in a Mobile Device Notification Hell
We live in a notification hell world of smartphones, and every year it is getting worse. Our presumably smart devices are incapable of differentiating what is important and what is not.
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 Should Be Used To Make Ads More Relevant
It is 2015 and by now advertising agencies could have figured out the best way to deliver relevant ads to … 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
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
Apple is (or was) the Biggest User of Apache Cassandra
One thing I did not realize about Cassandra is that Apple is (or was) one of the biggest Cassandra users … 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
The Dulin Report 
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