Abstract The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, whereas on industry leading, highly automated services, we’ve seen ratios as high as 2,500:1. Within Microsoft services, Autopilot is …
Abstract Cluster computing applications – frameworks like MapReduce and user-facing applications like search platforms have application-level requirements and higher-level abstractions to express …
Abstract HP’s StoreAll with Express Query is a scalable commercial file archiving product that offers sophisticated file metadata management and search capabilities. …
A key feature of all distributed storage systems is their ability to replicate data not just across machines within a data center …
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Abstract This paper presents Polybase, a feature of SQL Server PDW V2 that allows users to manage and query data stored in …
With both the F1 and Spanner papers out its now possible to understand their interplay a bit holistically. So lets start by …
MillWheel is a framework for building low-latency data-processing applications that is widely used at Google. Users specify a directed computation graph and …
Abstract Diverse applications including cyber security, social networks, protein networks, recommendation systems or citation networks work with inherently graph-structured data. The graphs …
Abstract A geographically distributed system for joining multiple continuously flowing streams of data in real-time with high scalability and low latency, where …