Distributed Database Concepts

The Case for Shared Nothing

On March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 By ricardo-jimenez-peris Posted in Distributed Database Concepts

Shared-nothing has become the dominant parallel architecture for big data systems, such as MapReduce and Spark, analytics platforms, NoSQL databases and search engines [Özsu & Valduriez 2020]. The reason is […]

Understanding Cluster Replication Scalability

On March 8, 2021March 8, 2021 By ricardo-jimenez-peris Posted in Distributed Database Concepts

Cluster Replication and Logarithmic Scalability If you have been using cluster replication with some open source operational database, you might have noticed that they do not scale out well. If […]

Understanding Distributed Databases Scalability

On February 15, 2021March 15, 2021 By ricardo-jimenez-peris Posted in Distributed Database Concepts

Scalability & Performance What is scalability? Scalability is an overloaded term that has been perverted by technical marketing to confuse potential customers. Every system today would be advertised as scalable […]