Database Reference
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ever-changing. That notwithstanding, the two market leaders in the space to
consider are Amazon and Microsoft.
Amazon
As one of the pioneers with the largest footprint in the big data cloud
services space, Amazon offers three relevant services, all of which fall under
the Amazon Web Services (
http://aws.amazon.com/
) umbrella.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
) is
web-based service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
Amazon offers preconfigured Windows and Linux templates that include a
variety of preinstalled application systems. Instances from small or micro
to large or high memory/processor capacity can be created. You can easily
resize your instances as your computing needs change.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Built on top of the EC2 service, the Elastic MapReduce service
(
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/
)
offers businesses a resizable,
hosted Hadoop platform for processing large quantities of data. The EMR
service supports a number of processing jobs, including MapReduce,
MapReduce Streaming (via Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, R, and C++),
Hive, and Pig.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
The Simple Storage Service (S3) service (
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
)
provides inexpensive, highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fast data storage
in the cloud. Data can easily be backed up or even globally distributed and is
accessed and managed via a REST API.
