NoSQL Week in Review 18
What’s Hot in the NoSQL World
- Quick Review of Existing Graph Databases
- Presentation: Introducing Riak
- Presentation: CouchDB and Lucene
- Cassandra: 6 Myths Debunked
- The Role of Data Modeling with Key-Value Stores
By the end of the week, I’ve caught a couple of very interesting posts that will be published very soon so stay tuned.
NoSQL Week in Review
- Monthly HBase Digest: March
“According to the monthly HBase digest: …”
- Screencast: How to Create an Elastic MapReduce Job
“A 7 minute long screencast showing demoing the creation of an Elastic MapReduce job with Amazon Elastic MapReduce …”
- Quick Review of Existing Graph Databases
“ For your reference, below is a list of the graph databases …”
- Presentation: CouchDB and Lucene
“We’ve looked in the past at two possible approaches to deal with full text indexing in CouchDB . Now, I’ve found a great slidedeck from Martin Rehfeld on the subject: …”
- Hadoop User Group March Meeting Recap
“The meeting hosted lots of discussions and 3 presentations: …”
- Why CouchDB?
“A funny way to emphasize some advantages of CouchDB: …”
- Getting Started with Cassandra on Windows
“While installing Cassandra on Windows is just a matter of getting a Java runtime, setting some environment variables and using the Cassandra distribution with some minimal configuration changes, things seem to be get more complicated when wanting to develop against it from a non-Java environment as this will require compiling Thrift. …”
- Hadoop Hardware Recommendations from Cloudera Support Team
“One of the first things you learn when speaking to guys handling tons of data is that the they tend to use a different definition of commodity hardware and that commodity hardware is not synonymous to crappy (or cheap) hardware. So, before starting to build your next Hadoop cluster you should ask yourself how to choose and what hardware to use. …”
- HBase, MapReduce and Data Analysis
“Joydeep Sen Sarma takes a look at the possibility of separating the I/O paths for processing real-time requests and analytic queries while continuing the use the same HBase storage: …”
- In-Memory Elastic Databases
“A month ago I was writing about one of those catchy articles NoSQL wants to be elastic caching when it grows up arguing that if it is something to happen in this space, it will be that elastic caching solutions [ 1 ] will look more seriously into persistency. …”
- Presentation: Introducing Riak
“This is the longest NoSQL presentation I’ve ever posted here: 209 slides! If you’re planning to beat Kevin Smith’s ( @kevsmith ) record please do let me know in advance so I can reserve enough time to go through it. …”
- Cassandra: 6 Myths Debunked
“Jonathan Ellis ( @spyced ) post clarifies a series of misunderstandings related to Cassandra : …”
- THE Redis Cookbook
“Ted Nyman ( @tnm8 ) and Tim Lossen ( @tlossen ) set up this Redis cookbook . There isn’t too much in there yet, but hopefully it will build a nice collection of recipes. …”
- The Role of Data Modeling with Key-Value Stores
“While the scenario described by Ben O’Steele’s article — using Redis for log based analytics — might not be interesting to everyone , it made me think once again about the importance of data modeling in the NoSQL space …”
- A Different Kind of CouchDB Cheatsheet
“I really appreciate this sort of extensive notes someone takes while learning about a new system. They are basically like cheatsheets or the “Learn NoSQL in 12 hours” books: they don’t turn you into an expert overnight, but they give you enough to wet your taste. And I’ll tell you my little secret…”
