Saturday 9 November 2013

What is Google ?

Today, I read a article "What Makes Google Services Work So Fast ?" at googlersays.com. This articles reveals something new and interesting facts about Google and its services.

We know that Google services are very fast, reliable, robust and trustworthy. We store our confidential information in Google services like Docs, gmail etc.

Google uses proprietary software which keeps its services at No.1 position.

Google File System: Google uses its own file system named as GFS (Google File System), provides reliable and efficient access to data.

Chubby: Google developed a lock services called Chubby, used for Shared resource management system. Heavily used as Domain Name Server.

BigTable: Google uses a Non-Relational Database called BigTable

Google also uses a OpenSource software for processing data

MapReduce: is s/w framework for processing large amount of unstructured data.

Linux Operating System: Majority of the Google servers/computers runs with Linux OS.

Please read the article What Makes Google Services Work So Fast ? for more details.


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