Inside Data@Scale 2015
6/22/2015 · Ganapathy Krishnamoorthy
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This post summarizes presentations from the Data@Scale 2015 event, highlighting advancements in distributed data storage and processing. Key contributions include details on Presto (an open-source distributed SQL query engine for ad-hoc analysis), LogLens (Twitter's real-time log indexing and search service), Firefly (Dropbox's index and search system), Précis (Dato/GraphLab's scaling and resource utilization system), Azure DocumentDB (Microsoft's cloud-based NoSQL database), ZippyDB (Facebook's key/value memory cache service), Outlook Service (Microsoft's cloud-scale service architecture), Facebook's multi-exabyte cold storage systems (using HDDs and Blu-ray discs), Windows Azure Storage's media type evolution, and Backblaze Vaults (a distributed storage system).