NoSQL Week in Review 8
Without any further ado, we will start this week’s NoSQL review directly with our what’s hot in the NoSQL world section.
What’s Hot in the NoSQL World
- Kyoto Cabinet: The successor of Tokyo Cabinet
- Hadoop, NY Times and Open Source Libraries
- Presentation: Graphs && Neo4j => teh awesome!
- Usecase: NoSQL-based Blogs
- Two presentations about MongoDB
There are some interesting remarks I’d like to make based on this last week hot topics list.
Firstly, it looks like even if there is no sign of a strong community behind Tokyo Cabinet (not to mention the lack of fresh content), Tokyo Cabinet has quite a few users that are interested in its future. At the moment it is not clear if Kyoto Cabinet marks the end of life of Tokyo Cabinet or is just an experiment that once in a more stable phase will provide a migration path for existing Tokyo Cabinet users.
Secondly, even if Google has been granted a patent for his MapReduce — a topic I have refrained from commenting so far, Hadoop adoption is growing fast. The old NY Times story, even if extremely interesting, is getting some good challengers: Hadoop and Oracle Parallel Processing.
Thirdly, even if usecases like Twitter applications or clones and blogs are considered too basic, they are fulfilling an important role in NoSQL adoption by providing clear and simple to follow examples.
New NoSQL Releases
- Redis, which launched the 1.2.0 version the other week, has pushed out a minor bugfix release ☞ 1.2.1.
- MongoDB has released a new development version: ☞ 1.3.1, which is not production ready.
- As we mentioned in our brief NoSQL news Project Voldemort has pushed out the first RC of the upcoming version ☞ including the rebalancing feature.
There have been quite a few NoSQL libraries updates being published this week and I’m planning to cover the most important ones in an post early next week.
NoSQL Week in Review
- Release: Redis 1.2.0 - New persistence mode, sorted sets and more
“Last week Redis has released a new stable version. Here are a couple of the new features included in Redis 1.2.0:”…
- My first real project using MongoDB and MongoMapper
“Basic hints for MongoDB and MongoMapper newbies.”…
- Voice Applications with Tropo, CouchDB and PHP
“Even if you don’t plan to build a telephony app, I’d still say it is a bit more practical than this other CouchDB usecase .”…
- Hadoop, NY Times and Open Source Libraries
“I guess everyone with some interest in Hadoop already knows the story of NY Times converting more than 130 years worth of articles (11 million articles in TIFF format) into PDFs using Hadoop and Amazon EC2 . What I didn’t know though is that this wasn’t an one-time only project, NY Times continuing to use Hadoop for other projects and that they open sourced the Map/Reduce Toolkit (MRToolkit) …”
- Top 10 Reasons to Get More Information about SimpleDB
“I am not really sure where ☞ this old article popped up from, but I think it is somehow good that others are ☞ still reacting and showing how wrong it can be:”…
- Presentation: Graphs && Neo4j => teh awesome!
“We’ve already seen some slides from this presentation, but the video is even better. Check it yourself …”
- Two presentations about MongoDB
“Two presentations on MongoDB, one given by Dwight Merriman, 10gen CEO, at NYC MySQL Group at Sun and the other by Mike Dirolf ( @mdirolf ) at Codemash 2.0.1.0.”…
- Hadoop and Oracle Parallel Processing
“At the end of last year, in a “reconciliation” attempt, I was writing that even if not all , more RDBMS are looking into integrating MapReduce in their set of tools .”…
- Up and Running with Riak: Installation
“Today I was talking with Basho guys about the lack of support in Homebrew for Riak. The good news are two or even three: …”
- Kyoto Cabinet: The successor of Tokyo Cabinet
“It looks like Mikio Hirabayashi, the author of Tokyo Cabinet is moving along and started developing the successor of Tokyo Cabinet. The name of the new project is Kyoto Cabinet.”…
- Screencast: A step by step intro to MongoDB
“A step by step MongoDB intro screencast from Michael Dirolf. While nothing new, if you haven’t played yet with MongoDB, this 36 minute video will give you a good feeling of how to start using MongoDB.”…
- Usecase: NoSQL-based Blogs
“Aside Twitter applications , blogs are another darling of NoSQL projects. So, I’ve put together a list of NoSQL powered blog projects …”
- MongoDB Usecase: Replace Amazon S3 with GridFS and Grails
“Interesting idea at least from the perspective of the technologies: MongoDB , GridFS , Grails . But if you consider the real advantages of using Amazon S3 (reliability, locality, ‘no administration’) this remains just a cool experiment.”…
- CouchDB Usecase: skynny_board - a CouchDB based scrum board application
“The guys from ☞ skinnyboard.com have released the code of their scrum board app built using Ruby, Rack, Rails, Sinatra, Sammy, CouchDB and MySQL. Sounds geekly #nosql!”
These last couple of days and next week, I (and implicitly MyNoSQL) will go through an important test: how is it to maintain MyNoSQL when my business requires me to travel and spend whole day in meetings. If you have hints and ideas on how to make it work please share them with me. And do not hesitate to let me know how am I doing (good or bad).
Have a great NoSQL week!
