Scalability concepts

Google BigTable
http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html

BigData : are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data

Hadoop

MapReduce : Google framework

Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf

- Master / slave
- peer to peer
- cluster: similar components
- grid: different components