While Amazon Web Services approach is bring-your-own-data to our storage and processing solutions, Rackspace’s strategy seems to be “whatever popular NoSQL storage engine you like, we have your back. Just bring your data“.

Last month Rackspace bought MongoDB hosting provider ObjectRocket and now they acquired Exceptional Cloud Service which brings Redis hosting on board.

It’s difficult to say how well is Amazon’s strategy working as the company doesn’t do a lot to get their customers’ case studies out there—I still need to find a list of 10 companies that are using Amazon Dynamo. But this doesn’t mean a thing. On the other hand, I can see Rackspace’s strategy working and getting a lot of traction considering they’re looking after the most popular NoSQL tools.

✚ The Register writes about this acquisition too: Rackspace gobbles Exceptional Cloud Services for Redis smarts. I assume many others are asking the same question:

So, with Redis and MongoDB due to make their way into the Rackspace cloud proper, what other technologies are catching the web hoster turned cloud whisperer’s eyes?

Original title and link: Rackspace: BYOD to Your Preferred Storage (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

FnordMetric looks like an interesting library for collecting and visualizing timeseries:

According to the docs, the framework has 3 components:

1. FnordMetric Classic: a DSL for processing data streams and building web-based dashboards.

   It’s built in Ruby and uses Redis.

2. FnordMetric Enterprise: a JVM-based timeseries databases

3. FnordMetricUI: HTML5 and Javascript API for embeding charts into web pages. It works with either the Classic or Enterprise backends.

My only question is why building a new storage engine for the Enterprise component when there are already so many good tools for doing this. Other than that, I really liked the screenshot.

Original title and link: FnordMetric: A Framework for Collecting and Visualizing Timeseries (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

The RavenDB team has released mostly a bug fix new version RavenDB 2.01. The change log is here.

Redis also has a new bug fix release: 2.6.10 including non-critical fixes and 5 small improvements. Change log is here

Original title and link: NoSQL Bug Fix Releases: Redis 2.6.10 and RavenDB 2.01 (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

More service providers for hosted NoSQL solutions:

1. Garantia Data to Offer its Redis & Memcached Hosting Services in Europe: “In-memory NoSQL Company extends Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud to European Amazon Web Services users.”
2. CloudBird Launch, now with RavenDB 2.0 support - The CloudBird Blog: “Today we’re cracking open the Champagne as we peel off the beta label and officially welcome production databases to our RavenDB hosting service. What’s more we’re also introducing support for the Raven 2.0 RTM.”

It’s not anymore just “a database for every taste”, but steadly becoming more of “a database for every taste served from anywhere you like”,

Original title and link: NoSQL Hosting: Redis and RavenDB (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

A very early stage of a Redis monitoring tool using hiredis¹and express² on Node.js presenting a dashboard inspired by Netflix’s Hystrix³:

The project is on GitHub so you can send some pull requests with improvements.

Original title and link: Redis-Stat: Redis Monitoring With Netflix’s Hystrix Flavor (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

The list of releases I wanted to post about has been growing fast these last couple of weeks, so instead of waiting leaving it to Here it is (in no particular order¹):

1. (Jan.2nd) Cassandra 1.2 — announcement on DataStax’s blog. I’m currently learning and working on a post looking at what’s new in Cassandra 1.2.
2. (Jan.10th) Apache Pig 0.10.1 — Hortonworks wrote about it
3. (Jan.10th) DataStax Community Edition 1.2 and OpsCenter 2.1.3 — DataStax announcement
4. (Jan.10th) CouchDB 1.0.4, 1.1.2, and 1.2.1 — releases fixing some security vulnerabilities

5. (Jan.11th) MongoDB 2.3.2 unstable — announcement. This dev release includes support for full text indexing. For more details you can check:

   • MongoDB Full Text Search Explained and MongoDB Text Search Tutorial
   • Full text search in MongoDB: details about supported languages and queries
   • Indexing a Markdown blog using MongoDB full text indexing
   • Short demo of MongoDB text search and hashed shard keys
     
   • (Jan.12th) Apache HBase 0.94.4 — announcement and release notes
   • (Jan.14th) Apache Hive 0.10.0: Hortonworks’s post about it
   • (Jan.15th) Hortonworks Data Platform 1.2 featuring Apache Amabari — official PR announcement
   • (Jan.16th) Redis 2.6.9 — release notes
   • (Jan.16th) HyperDex 1.0RC1 — no docs
   • (Jan.16th) Klout’s Brickhouse — announcement:

   […] an open source project extending Hadoop and Hive with a collection of useful user-defined-functions. Its aim is to make the Hive Big Data developer more productive, and to enable scalable and robust dataflows.

Original title and link: 11 Interesting Releases From the First Weeks of January (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)