As part of CS 6331 - Advance Topics in Database, we were introduced to various cloud providers in the market and explore the features they offer.
List of cloud providers covered :
- IBM's Bluemix
- Amazon's AWS
- Google's App Engine
- Microsoft's Azure
On Bluemix
- Explored Bluemix's Object storage as
Storage as a service - Deploying Python Flask Web application
- ClearDB: Utilizing MySQL database
On AWS, a variety of topics were covered
- Creating Linux Instances
- Installing packages in the Instance
- Deploying Python Flask Web application
- Initiating RDS: Using MySQL Database
- Creating Memcached instance
- Analysing performance of queries with Memcached
- Performing Data analytics
- Hadoop Map-Reduce
- On single Instance
- On multi Instances
- K-Means Clustering
- Visualizing in Javascript charting tools
On App Engine, the following tasks were taken up:
- Deploying Flask Web application
- NoSQL: Configuring MongoDB Instances
- JMeter: Stress testing the app
On Azure, the following were exercised:
- Deploying Flask Web application
- NoSQL: Introduction to Azure's DocumentDB
- Scaling up the app