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Cloud database market is heating up with Amazon announcement

Amazon announced its second entry in to the world of cloud databases. Called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, this appears to be a hosted implementation of the Hadoop framework. Hadoop, in a nutshell provides a way to analyse very large amounts of data by employing large number of processing nodes working independently. [...]

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The forcast for databases is partly cloudy

The current economic climate is going to dramatically accelerate the adoption of the Cloud Computing. Utility computing just makes good economic sense. Most of us would not think of buying a generator to power our houses; we get our electricity from the grid. I don’t see why we should not be thinking about getting our computing capacity the same way. On the small scale, DBMS can be deployed in the Cloud very easily today and, I think, this is a perfect time to create a test instance just to get a feel for what a future may look like. And this glimpse will cost you about the same as a cup of Starbucks. [...]

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