Paper
This excellent survey of the field was written by Ian Thomas Varley as part of his Master of Science in Engineering program. The aim of this paper is to explore the conceptual design space of non-relational databases as compared to traditional relational databases. It is clear that the design needs
cassandra
Digg has been researching ways to scale our database infrastructure for some time now. We’ve adopted a traditional vertically partitioned master-slave configuration with MySQL, and also investigated sharding MySQL with IDDB. Ultimately, these solutions left us wanting. In the case of the traditional architecture, the lack of redundancy on
Database
Database normalization is a technique for designing relational database schemas that ensures that the data is optimal for ad-hoc querying and that modifications such as deletion or insertion of data does not lead to data inconsistency. Database denormalization is the process of optimizing your database for reads by creating redundant