There has been much discussion in other blogs and other media about the economies of scale that Amazon is bringing to the market, making large scale computing available at a cost that has impressed many. The cost structure for their Redshift product appears to be no different. Based on the current costs, I have put […]
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How big is your data?
I will not take credit for the here, it is something I ran across, but struck me as so very appropriate for the topic I have been beating the drum about since my post about zetabyte storage needs. It is with those “extreme” storage needs that you need to build and design today’s […]
“Big Data” with Amazon Redshift – Intro
If you have been following along on my blog, you have seen the various technical and other ramblings for my recent R&D efforts around “Big Data”. A little while ago I wrote about giving Amazon a try which I still believe is true… and long those lines, am now giving Amazon Redshift (their new entry […]
Hadoop – some basic setup
For those of you coming along on this journey, I want to take a quick step back. Rather than assuming what you do and don’t know a little background to how to make this installation go. This post is not really “interesting findings” but rather a how-to for the install process. As I explained in […]
Hadoop/Hive a few lessons learned
It has been a few days since the last set of posts, and quite honestly did not want to leave it hanging even this long, so I wanted to give a brief update to (at least help) cut-off some of the frustrations I have faced for those of you attempting the same path through the […]
Amazon – Give it a try
A little more than a week ago Amazon made some announcements, near and dear to my heart, warehousing. Only this time, as you would expect from Amazon, it is moving to the cloud… with the announcement of their “Redshift” product. I have been intrigued by some of the advantages that cloud computing provides, however, from […]
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