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Netflix Built a Scalable Annotation Service Using Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Iceberg
Netflix recently published how it built Marken, a scalable annotation service using Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Iceberg. Marken allows storing and querying annotations, or tags, on arbitrary entities. Users define versioned schemas for their annotations, which include out-of-the-box support for temporal and spatial objects.
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Google Introduces Zero-ETL Approach to Analytics on Bigtable Data Using BigQuery
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Bigtable federated queries, with BigQuery allowing customers to query data residing in Bigtable via BigQuery faster. Moreover, the querying is without moving or copying the data in all Google Cloud regions with increased federated query concurrency limits, closing the longstanding gap between operational data and analytics.
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Google Introduces Autoscaling for Cloud Bigtable for Optimizing Costs
Cloud Bigtable is a fully-managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large operational and analytical workloads on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). And recently, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of Bigtable Autoscaling, which automatically adds or removes capacity in response to the changing demand for applications allowing cost optimizations.
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Google Cloud Improves SLA for Bigtable and Adds New Security Features
Google Cloud has recently raised the availability SLA for Bigtable instances up to 99.999%, matching the SLA for Firestore and Cloud Spanner. The data storage system introduced as well two new security features for enterprise workloads, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and data access audit logs.
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Google Provides a Peek into the Architecture of Colossus - Its Storage Foundation
In a recent post, Google provided a glimpse into the architecture of Colossus. Colossus underpins Google's scalable storage system, which serves both its Google Cloud offerings and Google's own globally available services such as YouTube, Google Drive, and Gmail. Five separate components compose Colossus - the client library, curators, metadata database, file servers, and custodians.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
At this year’s Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, a NoSQL database product to manage Cassandra-based workloads into Azure cloud.
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K8ssandra: Production-Ready Platform for Running Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes
DataStax recently released K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes. K8ssandra aims to provide a “production-ready platform”, and this includes automation for operational tasks such as repairs, backups, and monitoring.
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DataStax Announces Cloud Native Database as a Service and AIOps Tools
DataStax announced last month the release of Astra, a cloud-native Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) built on Apache Cassandra. They also recently announced an AIOps product called Vector that proactively monitors the health of Apache Cassandra clusters.
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Amazon Announces the Open Preview of a Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) on AWS
At the recent AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a new way of managing Cassandra databases on AWS. With Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), the public cloud vendor can offer Cassandra directly to customers instead of through third-party vendors.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development.
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Scaling Graphite for Metrics Collection on AWS at Teads Engineering
Teads Engineering shared their story of scaling Graphite deployment from a single server, trying out various approaches like BigGraphite, and finally settling on the go-graphite stack and a custom HA architecture on AWS.
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Google Announces Several Updates to Database Services
Google has announced several new products and features for the database services on Google Cloud Platform. These announcements include Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, version 11 support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and multi-region replication for Cloud Bigtable.
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Google Expands Cloud BigTable Replication Capabilities Globally in Beta
Google announced the expansion of Cloud BigTable's replication capabilities in Beta - providing customers with the flexibility to make their data available across a region or worldwide. Furthermore, the enhancements will allow customers to create a replicated cluster in any zone at any time.
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ScyllaDB Announces Major Release of Its NoSQL Database and Support for Concurrent OLTP and OLAP
At their annual Scylla Summit conference, ScyllaDB released version 3.0 of their flagship product, ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0. New features include: concurrent OLTP and OLAP; materialized views; secondary indexes; and compatibility with the Cassandra 3.x file format. Dor Laor, CEO at ScyllaDB, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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Splitting Stateful Services across Continents at Instagram
At the recent Large Installation System Administration (LISA) 2018 Conference, Sherry Xiao, production engineer at Instagram, explained how their team split Instagram’s services across datacenters in the US and Europe. They achieved data locality in their stateful services - Cassandra and TAO - by using new and modified tools from Facebook’s engineering team.