D 2013-04-09T06:32:38.965
L Jenny's\sUpdates
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<i>Jenny's Updates</i>

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<th>Date</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Link</th>
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<td>Feb 26</td>
<td>Watched Netflix's presentation on optimizing Cassandra database on AWS. Took down notes of key features from the presentation.</td>
<td><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPrui898fhg&list=WL70687110F8AAE11C">AWS re: Invent DAT 202: Optimizing your Cassandra Database on AWS</a></td>
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<td>Mar 2</td>
<td>Read IBM's article on pros and cons of Cassandra.</td>
<td><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-apache-cassandra/index.html">Consider the Apache Cassandra database</a></td>
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<td>Mar 5</td>
<td>Read Datastax's whitepaper on benchmarking NoSQL databases to get an idea on how we should set up our benchmark. As well as other NoSQL benchmark/comparison blogs and posts.</td><br>
<td><a href="http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WP-Benchmarking-Top-NoSQL-Databases.pdf">Benchmarking Top NoSQL Databases</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/nosql-benchmarking/">CUBRID NoSQL Benchmarking</a>
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ThibaultDory/comparing-nosql-databases-benchmark">Comparing Scalable NoSQL Databases</a></td>
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<td>Mar 8</td>
<td>Started setting up YCSB and Cassandra on EC2 instance 1.</td>
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<td>Mar 10</td>
<td>Ran core workloads on instance 1.</td>
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<td>Mar 20</td>
<td>Successfully configured and started a Cassandra cluster with no replication, random partitioner.</td>
<td><a href="http://chiselapp.com/user/jfang/repository/416DAT/dir?ci=0af3a97b5fd2a59d&name=Jenny">Configuration, output, token generation files.</td>
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<td>Mar 25</td>
<td>Added custom properties to YCSB workloads and automatically save status log ti designated folder, which is then used for graph generation.</td>
<td><a href="http://chiselapp.com/user/jfang/repository/416DAT/artifact/0ddbbd498d2591ce7b46c7a43bedc2a28a3822c0">Client.java</td>
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<td>Apr 3</td>
<td>Helped with graph generation script.</td>
<td><a href="http://chiselapp.com/user/jfang/repository/416DAT/artifact/6844825f309f373a137df11a4dc203b9986bdb18">custom.js<br>
<a href="http://chiselapp.com/user/jfang/repository/416DAT/finfo?name=Jenny/masterThroughput.html">masterThroughput.html</td>

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