Tag: NoSQL
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NoSQL Foundation Papers Summarized
At least somebody read through the seminal papers on NoSQL technologies Google BigTable and Amazon Dynamo, and created 18-20 page summary decks to spare us the reading. Check the two decks below.
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Unix Philosophy in the DB World
There’s a good article about the Unix philosophy in the DB world from the beginning of the year, remarking the importance of simple and standard protocols for the upcoming breed of NoSQL DBs. I thought this is a good follow-up to last week’s Open Source Databases, so here you go!
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Open Source Databases Have Come of Age
Matt Benjamin writes about the OSS DB ecosystem in Open Source Databases Have Come of Age, including NoSQL. Good summary!
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NoSQL Basics, Benefits and Best-Fit Scenarios
NoSQL Basics, Benefits and Best-Fit Scenarios has Curt Monash look at NoSQL for the uninitiated, see also his blog for some more comments (him & others) on the topic.
Quest appears to also have done some thinking on NoSQL, leading to product announcements as well as introductionary articles such as 10 things you should know about NoSQL databases and Three Things to Watch with NoSQL (and commentary by Alex Popescu).… Continued
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Using MySQL as NoSQL
Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server – how to almost achieve double the Memcached performance using a MySQL UDF that bypasses the SQL layer, talks directly to the InnoDB layer. Wonder if the SQL overhead is similar in Oracle or MS SQL Server, and how you’d work around that there.… Continued
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Scalability and Databases
Following up on yesterday’s scalability post, here are some more pointers to interesting articles about scalability and databases:
- The Complexities of Scale tries to explore the meaning of the term “scale,” specifically in the context of cloud computing.
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When do you need ACID?
The recent JPMorgan Chase outage caused by an Oracle RAC block corruption places an old question back on the agenda that gets ignored way too often: How to tell whether you need ACID-compliant transaction integrity. The cost of ACID in large database systems is so high that you should consider moving those parts to simpler, cheaper or better scalable (or all three) systems that may not provide ACID compliance, but still store your data.… Continued
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NoSQL Primer for RDBMS folks
Chen Shapira apparently went through a similar information gathering and facts finding exercise as I did with NoSQL, but she’s much better at writing it up all in this concise and complete article NoSQL Deep Dive – The Missing White Paper.… Continued
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Teradata, Cloudera team up on Hadoop data warehousing
Does anybody remember as far back as two months ago? That’s when I asked
All these connectors being announced makes me think there’s somebody out there with a matrix of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, looking at which combinations don’t have a marketable connector yet so he can be first to market.… Continued