ClickHouse®: A beginner’s guide to “the fastest” open source OLAP DBMS

At NetApp® Instaclustr, we help our customers make the most of open source technologies at scale. When an open source technology proves to be extremely valuable and our customers ask us to include it in our managed platform, we work hard to make it happen – and that’s exactly what we did with ClickHouse®.  ClickHouse…

Top 10 reasons why enterprises choose NetApp® Instaclustr

Enterprises of all shapes, sizes, and industries are increasingly turning to managed open source platforms to simplify their operations, enhance their capabilities, and build reliable applications at scale.   According to an IDC analyst brief, with the data growth of AI and cloud-native applications, teams must simplify their underlying data infrastructure to support business objectives.  …

Why Is Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage More Like a Dam Than a Fountain? Part 2

In Part 1 of this blog, we introduced Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage and had an initial look at how it works in practice on a public preview version of Instaclustr’s managed Apache Kafka service. In this part, we will have a closer look at Performance, dam the river, and conclude.  Kafka Tiered Storage Performance  Mistaya…