Monthly Archives: June 2014

DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 3

Posted on June 23, 2014 by pristinecrap

In Part 2, we looked at Design Considerations of NoSQL and introduced the concept of eventual consistency. In this article, we will introduce the concepts and techniques used while architecting a NoSQL system. The core distributed systems techniques employed in … Continue reading →

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DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 2

Posted on June 11, 2014 by pristinecrap

In Part 1, we introduced you to NoSQL, spoke about the CAP theorem and certain assumptions that need to be made while designing NoSQL data stores. Let’s dive deeper! Design Considerations Traditional commercial systems and applications perform data replication in … Continue reading →

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DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 1

Posted on June 4, 2014 by pristinecrap

In our earlier posts (here and here), we introduced the Hadoop ecosystem & explained its various components using a real world example of the retail industry. We now possess a fair idea of the advantages of Big Data. NoSQL datastores … Continue reading →

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