Survey parallel, distributed and cloud systems you have used. Provide three exam

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Survey parallel, distributed and cloud systems you have used. Provide three examples of systems you encounter on a regular basis. For example, what distributed systems are used by applications on your desktop, laptop and smartphone? What distributed systems are used by your favorite app or social media site? Research and determine the distributed system name and any relevant details.

Submit a one-page report with the following findings:

1. Devices, apps and sites surveyed

2. Distributed systems discovered

3. Attributes and other details learned about the systems in item 2

4. Are you surprised by any of the findings in 2 and 3. If so, why?

Explanation / Answer

We don’t realize but now databases are everywhere. Their effect in our day to day life is extensive. From social media to online TV streaming database is responsible for many services provided to us.

Some of the examples of databases we encounter on a regular basis are:

Microsoft Access is the old desktop database generally used in desktop.

Android uses SQLite database which is server-less SQL database, in which C librarcy takes all commands of SQL. It is really light and compact code.

When we watch online Tv like Netflix it uses generally uses database to generate the list of viewing. Database used here is Cassandra, which provide a enormous amount of data through high specialized database management technology.

Social media stores a lot of user information in database, the cross referencing data in social media is complex and therefore it requires a highly reliable and capable database. Facebook uses MYSQL.

Weather prediction is highly complex and depends upon myriad of factors. Company to store weather data uses MYSQL, SQL server, Cassandra and many more type of databases.

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