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Scientists are doing it for themselves. Doing what? Databases. The idea is that most databases are designed to meet the needs of businesses, not science, so scientists are banding together at scidb.org to create their own Domain Specific Database, for science. The goal is to be able to handle
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One of the cool things we are seeing is more tools and tool chains for performing very high level operations quite simply. Vagrant is such a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. Web developers use virtual environments every day with their web applications. From EC2 and Rackspace Cloud
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This is a part interview part guest with Sebastian Stadil, founder of Scalr, a cheaper open-source version of RightScale. Scalr takes care of all the web site infrastructure bits to on Amazon (and other clouds) so you don’t have to. I first met Sebastian at one of the original
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With the success of Neo4j as a graph database in the NoSQL revolution, it's interesting to see another graph database, HyperGraphDB, in the mix. Their quick blurb on HyperGraphDB says it is a: general purpose, extensible, portable, distributed, embeddable, open-source data storage mechanism. It is a graph database
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Queuing work for processing in the background is a time tested scalability strategy. Queuing also happens to be one of those much needed tools where it easy enough to forge for your own that we see a lot of different versions made. Resque is GitHub's take on a
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Stanford Info Lab is taking pains to document a direction we've been moving for a while now, using RAM not just as a cache, but as the primary storage medium. Many quality products have built on this model. Even if the vision isn't radical, the paper
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Update: Short presentation NYC by Bryan Fink demonstrating the riak web-shaped data storage engine Riak is another new and interesting key-value store entrant. Some of the features it offers are: * Document-oriented * Scalable, decentralized key-value store * Standard get, put, and delete operations. * Distributed, fault-tolerant storage solution. * Configurable levels of consistency, availability,
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Infinispan is a highly scalable, open source licensed data grid platform in the style of GigaSpaces and Oracle Coherence. From their website: The purpose of Infinispan is to expose a data structure that is highly concurrent, designed ground-up to make the most of modern multi-processor/multi-core architectures while at the
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One of the top recommendations from the collective wisdom contained in Real Life Architectures is to add monitoring to your system. Now! Loud is the lament for not adding monitoring early and often. The reason is easy to understand. Without monitoring you don't know what your system is
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Update 3: Presentation from the NoSQL Conference: slides, video. Update 2: Jim Wilson helps with the Understanding HBase and BigTable by explaining them from a "conceptual standpoint." Update: InfoQ interview: HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases. "MapReduce (both Google's and Hadoop's)
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Update 3: Presentation from the NoSQL conference: slides, video 1, video 2. Update 2: The folks at Hypertable would like you to know that Hypertable is now officially sponsored by Baidu, China’s Leading Search Engine. As a sponsor of Hypertable, Baidu has committed an industrious team of engineers, numerous
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Update: Presentation from the NoSQL conference: slides, video 1, video 2. Project Voldemort is an open source implementation of the basic parts of Dynamo (Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store) distributed key-value storage system. LinkedIn is using it in their production environment for "certain high-scalability storage problems where simple