Archive for the ‘Concepts’ Category
Something to think about—hadoop
What exactly is this nonsense? Haa… Doop? Is that what the kids are smoking at school now? Of course not. If you are familiar with servers, especially linux and apache, you will know that hadoop is no…
Columns versus Rows
In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theoretic…
Outline of The Google Software Stack
Introduction
The beginning of the research on software scalability spurred the research on fault tolerance and management technologies. After all, if you have a lot of software running on hundreds o…
What’s this scalability thing about?
Back in 2003, in the 50th issue of the Journal of the ACM (JACM), Jim Gray of Microsoft Research published "What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals" article. The article m…
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