Bigtable is a distributed storage solution developed at Google for storing structured data in a scalable manner. Multiple products(At the time the paper was written)…
Paper Notes: Real-time Data Infrastructure at Uber
An application like Uber might seem simple in the first look but does a great job of hiding complexity in order to provide a great…
Paper Notes: Amazon DynamoDB – A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service
Sometime back, I wrote a post on Dynamo which is Amazon’s key-value store. This paper is not about that. This paper was presented at a…
Paper Notes: WiscKey – Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage
During the last post about LSM trees, we discussed how awesome they are for write-heavy storage engines. But we also got a glimpse into why…
Paper Notes: Zookeeper – Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems
In a distributed computing environment, servers often need to work with certain shared set of attributes such as locks, system configurations etc. In order to…
Paper Notes: Dynamo – Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
Dynamo is one of the most influential papers in the domain of distributed storage technologies. It has inspired multiple open source databases such as Cassandra,…
Paper Notes: Cassandra- A Decentralized Structured Storage System
Cassandra is a distributed storage system that focusses on providing a highly scalable & available service for storing very large amount of data. As part…
Paper Notes: Kafka – a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing
Kafka was developed at LinkedIn for collecting & delivering high volume of log data with low latency. The paper dives into the design of Kafka…
Paper Notes: Scaling Memcache at Facebook
As part of this post we will be looking into the paper Scaling memcache at Facebook and try to understand the challenges Facebook faced while…