Does It Make Sense to Do Big Data with Small Nodes?

In this contributed article, Glauber Costa, Principal Architect at ScyllaDB, busts some myths about the best node size for big data. In this age of big data and powerful commodity hardware there’s an ongoing debate about node size. Does it make sense to use a lot of small nodes to handle big data workloads? Or should we instead use only a handful of very big nodes?

It’s Time for Reinventing Data Services

In the contributed article blow, Yaron Haviv, CTO and founder of iguaz.io, observes that during the last decades, the IT industry has used and cultivated the same storage and data management stack. The problem is, everything around those stacks changed from the ground up — including new storage media, distributed computing, NoSQL, and the cloud. Learn about a better way.