NoSQL Week in Review 10
It is just a bit over 2 months since I have published the first article on MyNoSQL, as a way to follow and learn more about the NoSQL world. At that moment I wasn’t really imagining that in such a short interval there will be almost 200 posts, or that there will be a NoSQL week in review series published on a regular basis, or a NoSQL libraries page tracking more than 100 libraries, or a daily NoSQL ecosystem news. But what I haven’t really imagined is that there will be so many people out there that will start reading MyNoSQL and make me want to do more and better. I accepted the challenge and now it is my goal to make MyNoSQL the best place on the internet to follow the NoSQL movement and learn the NoSQL secrets.
Anyway, I don’t think there can be a community without listening to what it needs. So, please do not hesitate to tell me:
- what I am doing wrong
- what I should be doing differently
- what interests you most
- what you’d like to see more or differently
And don’t be shy! Share with others your experience and point of views. That’s what will make MyNoSQL a lot more interesting for everyone.
Last week, in my attempt to provide the best NoSQL coverage, I’ve presented you with the NoSQL ecosystem news. So far I’d say it was well received, but right now I don’t have enough data to really identify what have been hot from the community point of view. I’ll continue to watch it carefully and if it will show up some good trends I’ll make sure these will be included in the NoSQL weekly review.
And with this, we can get back to our weekly sections.
What’s Hot in the NoSQL World
- Grails and NoSQL
- Comparing OODB and NoSQL
- Charts with Redis and RaphaelJS
- Quick reference to latest MongoDB, Project Voldemort, Terrastore, and Riak
- Sensationalism and PR in the NoSQL World
It was really interesting to see the Grails and NoSQL post taking the top position. But once I took a step back, I’ve seen things a bit clearer: the Grails community is interested in NoSQL and once they’ve seen the post it spread around a lot. As a side note, that’s exactly what you should be doing with the posts you are enjoying! I think the widget added last week should make sharing quite simple, even if we are referring to Twitter, Delicious or simply emails.
New NoSQL Releases
Last week was probably the most active I’ve seen with 6 NoSQL releases. So while I was expecting a very quiet week in terms of releases, Basho guys surprised us with the release of Riak 0.8, which includes the very exciting support for Javascript MapReduce.
NoSQL Week in Review
- MongoDB, Pymongo and mod_wsgi
“Very interesting discussion about the possible limitations of using Pymongo with mod_wsgi …”
- Usecase: RestMQ - A Redis-based Message Queue
“I have found the attached presentation introducing RestMQ, a HTTP/REST/JSON message queue quite interesting for the tools it is using: …”
- HBase: A Month in Review
“When someone is summarizing a whole month of HBase discussions the only thing you can do is saying thank you and linking to it …”
- Quick reference to latest MongoDB, Project Voldemort, Terrastore, and Riak
“After mentioning all these NoSQL releases of the most active and exciting NoSQL week , I thought MyNoSQL should provide a quick reference to all of them. …”
- Why have NoSQL database reached the tipping point now?
“Kent Beck blogging about NoSQL. Unfortunately, I don’t really agree with his conclusion that the driving force behind NoSQL is energy costs. See why …”
- Statistics Power with R and Redis
“Statistical computation with ☞ rredis : a R language client library for Redis. Probably a good alternative for the Incanter with MongoDB combination . …”
- Expert Tips for Optimizing Hadoop and MapReduce
“You are running or at least planning to run a Hadoop cluster. Even if it is for a one time job, as NY Times or Digg are using it, or for long term, you will always want to take advantage of the optimizations and improvements that other did before you. …”
- Sensationalism and PR in the NoSQL World
“There are two things that I really really don’t like ( nb read: hate): sensationalism and PR-esque content. I strongly believe that both of these are detrimental to the whole NoSQL community. …”
- Release: Riak 0.8 supports JavaScript MapReduce
“Less than a week after the Riak 0.7.1 release , Basho guys launched a new version that brings an extremely exciting new feature: JavaScript MapReduce support. …”
- Presentation: MongoDB at ZPUGDC Monthly Meetings
“I am not sure if it is only my impression, but it looks like MongoDB is getting a lot of presentations and video coverage. And the champion seems to be Mike Dirolf ( @mdirolf ) from 10gen. Below is the freshest presentation he gave on MongoDB at ZPUGDC monthly meetings (a Python group) just a couple of days ago: …”
- Comparing OODB and NoSQL
“In the last couple of hours I read two interesting comparisons of object-oriented databases and NoSQL stores. …”
- DroidCouch: Android library for CouchDB
“Making CouchDB easily accessible from mobile phones is another example on how to simplify NoSQL adoption . And this is exactly what ☞ DroidCouch tries to provide: a minimal Android API for CouchDB. …”
- Charts with Redis and RaphaelJS
“A couple of interesting tips of putting Redis to work to get charts and reports: …”
- Grails and NoSQL
“Grails is probably one of the most flexible and productive frameworks that runs on the Java VM. One of the most appreciated aspects of Grails is its object relational mapping known as GORM, but lately I have also noticed some NoSQL plugins that I’m listing here ( note : please let me know if I’ve missed any): …”
- Redis Ecosystem Updates
“The Redis 1.2.0 release (shortly followed by a small bugfix release [ 1 ] ) has introduced a new persistence option: Append Only File . …”
- Getting Started with MongoDB and C#
“Pretty basic intro to using MongoDB from C#: …”
Have a great NoSQL week!
