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Lots of good ones this week... * Scalability, Availability & Stability Patterns. Jonas Boner has 197 slides covering a very wide range of scalability topics. One stop scalability shopping. * Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources. Heroku's Adam Wiggins shares what they've learned about scaling based
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* I Want a New Data Store. Jeremy Zawodny of Craigslist wants a new database, one that can do what it should: perform alter table operations faster, has efficient queries when most of the data is on disk and not in RAM, and matches their data that now looks more document
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1. Scalability porn (SFW). Real time meter for the number of ads being served by doubleclick. Amazing. A constant ~390,000 impressions a second are being served and 25 trillion since 1996. Thanks to Mike Rhoads for title idea. 2. Scalability? Don't worry. Application complexity? Worry by Joe
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1. Why NoSQL Will Not Die. Stephan Schmidt explains why you may wait a long time for NoSQL to go to that great bit bucket in the sky. 2. DBMS Musings: Distinguishing Two Major Types of Column-Stores by Daniel Abadi. I have noticed that Bigtable, HBase, Hypertable, and Cassandra are
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1. The Changelog Episode 0.1.8 - NoSQL Smackdown! This podcast was recorded at SXSW and features some energetic trash talking by: Stu Hood from Cassandra, Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB, Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB, Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon. It's fun hearing these
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* Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie by Dennis Forbes. Buoyed by Canada's Olympic success, Dennis is going for the gold in that least real of sports, the NoSQL vs SQL pursuit. * Design Patterns for Distributed Non-Relational Databases by Todd Lipcon. Great coverage of consistent
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1. Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King. Great interview by Alex Popescu on Twitter's thought process for switching to Cassandra. Twitter chose Cassandra because it had more big system features out of the box. Is that Cassandra FTW? 2. I Had Downtime Today. Here’s What I’
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* My Life With Hbase by Lars George. The hardscabble tale of Hbase's growth from infancy to maturity. A very good introduction and overview of Hbase. * NoSQL Alternatives -- Common Principles and Patterns for Building Scalable Applications. Explore the common principles behind the major NOSQL alternatives and how they
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Lots of cool stuff happening this week... 1. Voldemort gets rebalancing. It's one thing to shard data to scale, it's a completely different level of functionality to manage those shards intelligently. Voldemort has stepped up by adding advanced rebalancing functionality: Dynamic addition of new nodes to
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1. Google's Research Areas of Interest: Building scalable, robust cluster applications. At Google we see distributed systems as a technology in its infancy, with huge gaps in the supporting research that represent some of the most important problems in the space. Here are some examples: Resource sharing, Balancing
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1. Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? by Alan Williamson. Systemic problems hit AWS as users experience problems across Amazon's infrastructure. It seems the strange attractor of a cloud may be the same as for a shared hosting service. 2. Understanding Infrastructure 2.0 by James Urquhart. We
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* Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud. The only independent platform most of us will have access to capable of hosting planet-scale applications is the Ambient Cloud. It forms a sort of digital potluck where everyone contributes memory, network, and other compute resources from