March 13, 2010
The Naming of the Foo
Let’s start from some reasonable premises. Read more
| Categories: Data models and architecture, Database diversity, Hadoop, MapReduce, MarkLogic, NoSQL, OLTP, Theory and architecture | 37 Comments |
March 12, 2010
Some NoSQL links
I plan to post a few things soon about MongoDB, Cassandra, and NoSQL in general. So I’m poking around a bit reading stuff on the subjects. Here are some links I found. Read more
| Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Cassandra, Continuent, Google, MySQL, NoSQL, Open source, RDF and graphs, Tokutek and TokuDB | 5 Comments |
March 2, 2010
Cassandra and the NoSQL scalable OLTP argument
Todd Hoff put up a provocative post on High Scalability called MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era? The post itself focuses on observations like:
- Facebook invented and is adopting Cassandra.
- Twitter is adopting Cassandra.
- Digg is adopting Cassandra.
- LinkedIn invented and is adopting Voldemort.
- Gee, it seems as if the super-scalable website biz has moved beyond MySQL/Memcached.
But in addition, he provides a lot of useful links, which DBMS-oriented folks such as myself might have previously overlooked. Read more
| Categories: Cassandra, Data models and architecture, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, Parallelization, Specific users, Theory and architecture | 16 Comments |
March 1, 2010
Data exploration vs. data visualization
I’ve tended to conflate data exploration and data visualization, and I’m far from alone in doing so. But a recent Economist article is a useful reminder that they aren’t exactly the same thing. Read more
| Categories: Analytic technologies, Business intelligence | 5 Comments |