Elastic, Reliable, and Robust Storage and Query Processing with Crescando/RB
Philipp Unterbrunner · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2012
Recent advances in Utility Computing have given businesses of all sizes the ability to acquire computing resources in the Cloud at the tip of a button.Users of services such as Amazon EC2 or Rackspace can elastically scale their computing resources with growing or shrinking demand.Yet the elasticity of computational resources is of little use if the software itself is not elastic; that is, if the software cannot use the additional resources, or would become unavailable during reconfiguration.