Hey, it looks like the NoSQL applications panel I’ve moderated at QCon SF 2011 went live minutes ago on InfoQ. Featuring Andy Gross (Basho), Frank Weigel (Couchbase), Matt Pfeil (DataStax), Michael Stack (StumbleUpon), Jared Rosoff (10gen), and yours truly.

Drop everything and start watching it now! I promise you’ll love every second of it^[1].

Original title and link: NoSQL Applications Panel Video (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

Justin Sheehy talking about the origins of Riak and Dave Smith about its future at Riak 1.0 party. A nice piece of the recent history.

A screencast demoing CRUD capabilities of the Couchbase 2.0 using the Ruby library.

New York Times’ Jake Porway talks about Project Cascade and MongoDB usage for collecting, filtering, and analyzing realtime data feeds from a variety of sources to better understand how people interact with the news, the world, and each other.

I’ve been posting a lot about deployments in the cloud and especially about deploying MongoDB in the Amazon cloud:

• MongoDB on Amazon EC2 with EBS Volumes
• MongoDB on EC2
• MongoDB in the Amazon Cloud
• Setting Up MongoDB Replica Sets on Amazon EC2
• MongoDB and Amazon: Why EBS?
• Amazon EBS vs SSD: Price, Performance, QoS
• Multi-tenancy and Cloud Storage Performance

In this video Jared Rosoff covers topics like scaling and performance characteristics of running MongoDB in the cloud and he also shares some best practices when using Amazon EC2.

Tim Anglade about NoSQL:

It definitely has elements of a fad […], but I do think it is here to stay.

The complete interview recorded at OSCON is only 3 minutes long:

Cassandra 0.8 included the first version of Cassandra Query Language or CQL. Eric Evans gave a talk at Cassandra SF 2011 introducing Cassandra Query Language as an alternative and not replacement of the current Cassandra API:

Max Schireson positions MongoDB as a solution for Big Data and development agility:

A short video talking about an interesting storage technology from Nimble Storage which combines Flash and disk storage with inline compression for both cold and hot data:

For NoSQL databases there are no clear rules like the Boyce-Codd Normal Form database normalization. Data modeling and analysis of data access patterns are two fundamental activities. While over the last 2 years we’ve gather some recipes, it’s always a good idea to check what are the recommended ways to model your data with your choice of NoSQL database.

After the break, watch 10gen’s Richard Kreuter’s presentation on MongoDB schema design.

For single server deployments, backups are a must. But sometimes you might need to backup other deployments too. After the break, Scott Hernandez’ (10gen) talks about backing up a single server MongoDB, MongoDB replica sets, and MongoDB sharded cluster.

A Resque, the Redis backed background jobs tool, screencast by the Railscasts peeps. The 12 minutes video is available after the break and you can download the source code from the Railscast website.