<i>Jenny's Updates</i>

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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 re: Invent DAT 202: Optimizing your Cassandra Database on
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<td>Mar 2</td>
<td>Read IBM's article on pros and cons of Cassandra.</td>
<td><a the Apache Cassandra
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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 Top NoSQL Databases</a><br>
<a NoSQL Benchmarking</a>
<a Scalable NoSQL
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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 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
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<td>Apr 3</td>
<td>Helped with graph generation script.</td>
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