When planning your cloud on-boarding it’s important to remember the differences as well as pros and cons of different clouds. This could be one of the most difficult decisions as it may translate into big savings or large bills, ease of maintenance or long weekends of imlementation… Let’s review the cloud types and outline their …
Advantages of different types of cloud, with a sprinkle of history Read More »
The public cloud adoption is changing how enterprises host and manage their database systems.With a range of Database as a Service (DBaaS) options, and public cloud providers relieved many organizations from mundane and costly database management tasks like provisioning, updates, upgrades and administration. Let’s compare database products that some of the verndors – Amazon, GCP, …
We are going to review databases, their challenges and architectural approaches. Firstly let’s revisit the CAP theorem. It states that only 2 of the 3 constraints (Consistency, Availability, Partitioning) can be guaranteed in a shared distributed data system at a time. For example, Cassandra prefers Availability and Partitioning tolerance (A-P system with Eventual consistency). You …
CAP theorem, Lambda Architecture and how to pick the right database for your application Read More »
Both cloud vendors offer comparable solutions, let’s review them. AWS S3 / GCP Cloud Storage The basic storage is S3 in AWS and Cloud Storage in GCP. You can store petabytes of blob-like, unstructured data durably and cost-effectively. Depending on your data access patterns you can option for Nearline or Coldline in GCP or Glacier …
Cloud Data Storage options comparison on GCP and AWS Read More »