NoSQL is a trend that is gaining steam primarily in the world of Open Source. There are numerous NoSQL solutions available for all levels of complexity: from queryable distributed solutions like MongoDB to simpler distributed key-value storage solutions like Cassandra. Then there’s Riak, Tokyo Cabinet, Voldemort, CouchDB, and Redis.
ArchCamp: Scalable Databasess (NoSQL) The ArchCamp unconference was held this past Friday at HackerDojo in Mountain View, CA. There was plenty of pizza, beer, and great conversation. This session started out free-form, but shaped up pretty quickly into a discussion of the popular open source scalable NoSQL databases and the
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* Twitter Sees Its 20 Billionth Tweet writes Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb. * Startups die for not having customers, so STOP thinking about how to scale. Alessandro Orsi says focusing on the architecture and scaling possibilities of your app for millions of users is just plain dumb...concentrate on marketing...concentrate on
I’ve largely steered clear of publicly commenting on the “NoSQL vs. Relational” conflict. Keeping in mind that this argument is more about currently available solutions and the features their developers have chosen to build in, I’d like to dig into this and provide a decidedly neutral viewpoint. In
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If Google was a boxer then MapReduce would be a probing right hand that sets up the massive left hook that is Dremel, Google's—scalable (thousands of CPUs, petabytes of data, trillions of rows), SQL based, columnar, interactive (results returned in seconds), ad-hoc—analytics system. If Google was
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Robert Johnson, a director of engineering at Facebook, celebrated Facebook's monumental achievement of reaching 500 million users by sharing the scaling principles that helped reach that milestone. In case you weren't suitably impressed by the 500 million user number, Robert ratchets up the numbers game with
For some Friday Fun nerd style, I thought this demonstration from Basho on the difference between single master, sharding, and consistent smashing was really clever. I love the use of safety glasses! And it's harder to crash a server with a hammer than you might think... Recommended reading:
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* Jeremy Zawodny, while performing data alchemy in the dungeons of Craigslist, stored 1,250,000,000 Key/Value Pairs in Redis on a 32GB Machine. * Data sorting world record: 1 terabyte, 1 minute. The system has 52 computer nodes, each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24
The NoSQL movement faults the SQL query language as the source of many of the scalability issues that we face today with traditional database approach. I think that the main reason so many people have come to see SQL as the source of all evil is the fact that, traditionally,
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Should you pay more in the cloud or pay less for bare metal in the datacenter? This is a crucial decision point facing startups today. Which way should you go? In this Webpulp.tv interview, Joe Stump, always a go-to guy when you need a metric ass-ton (a favorite expression
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It's trendy today to say "I don't read blogs anymore, I just let the random chance of my social network guide me to new and interesting content." #fail. While someone says this I imagine them flicking their hair back in a "I can&