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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.

aws, bigdata, cassandra, cloud, devops, dynamodb, nosql

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

aws, bigdata, cassandra, dynamodb, nosql, postgresql, redshift, sql

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

aws, bigdata, cassandra, devops, hadoop

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

aws, bigdata, bigtable, cassandra, devops, google

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

apple, bigdata, cassandra, devops, in-memory, redis

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

analytics, aws, bigdata, cassandra, devops, dynamodb

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

aws, cassandra, devops, dynamodb

Cassandra: a key puzzle piece in a design for failure

When building out a data center in the cloud (AWS in particular) Cassandra can play a crucial role in the … More

aws, cassandra, rds

Things I wish Apache Cassandra was better at

At first I wanted to name this article “My personal list of grievances against Apache Cassandra”, but I decided to … More

bigdata, cassandra, nosql

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