NoSQL Weekly Updates

• Hadoop: 10 Tips & Tricks

  “Via Cloudera: …”

  (Tags: cloudera, hadoop)

• MongoDB: Scale Out Strategy Question

  “Interesting recipe for moving from dedicated servers to the cloud with MongoDB: …”

  (Tags: mongodb, NoSQL scalability)

• Why a DiY Big Data Stack is a Better Option

  “Someone is hopefully kidding: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL database, BigData)

• Why NoSQL does not Impress Me

  “Carl McDade: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL database, NoSQL theory)

• CouchDB: Sell it to Your Boss

  “Use this video to sell CouchDB to your boss: it provides some good answers to high level questions that always live in the heads of C-level people. Plus is uses a good doze of buzzwords. …”

  (Tags: couchdb)

• Scalable NoSQL Databases

  “Interesting break down of NoSQL databases: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL database, NoSQL scalability)

• High Availability MySQL at Yahoo!

  “Jay Jenssen talks about Yahoo!’s approach …”

  (Tags: high availability)

• Extensive Riak Benchmarking at Mozilla Test Pilot

  “Mozilla has previously published about their detailed plan and extensive investigation into Cassandra, HBase, and Riak that led to choosing Riak. This time they are publishing some extensive Riak benchmark results (against both Riak 0.10 and Riak 0.11 running Bitcask) — they are using Riak benchmarking code, included in the list of correct NoSQL benchmarks and performance evaluations solutions . Both the results, their analysis , and interpretation are fascinating. …”

  (Tags: Riak case study, NoSQL use case, riak, NoSQL benchmark)

• Pig: Making Hadoop Easy

  “A short slide deck on the advantages of using Pig instead of MapReduce: …”

  (Tags: mapreduce, hadoop, Pig)

• MongoDB Case Study: From MySQL to MongoDB at GameChanger

  “Kiril Savino explains in detail the evoluton of GameChanger from using MySQL to MongoDB: …”

  (Tags: mongodb, couchdb, mongodb case study, mysql)

• Redis: A Concurrency Benchmark

  “It looks like it is one of these days related to NoSQL benchmarks , as Jak Sprats shared on the Redis group his concurrency benchmark. Even if the thread doesn’t give details about the hardware, size of keys and values, the results are impressive. …”

  (Tags: NoSQL benchmark, redis)

• Using Object Database db4o as Storage Provider in Voldemort

  “Abstract : In this article I will show you how easy it is to add support for Versant’s object database, db4o in project Voldemort, an Apache licensed distributed key-value storage system used at LinkedIn which is useful for certain high-scalability storage problems where simple functional partitioning is not sufficient (Note: Voldemort borrows heavily from Amazon’s Dynamo, if you’re interested in this technology all the available papers about Dynamo should be useful). …”

  (Tags: OODB, db4o, project voldemort)

• MongoDB and Auto Increment

  “Chris Shiflett shares a solution to emulate the MySQL auto_increment with MongoDB. While you should read his post, the proposed solution is: …”

  (Tags: mongodb, NoSQL twitter, snowflake)

• Riptano and Quest Partnership for Cassandra

  “When talking if a common query language for NoSQL databases would make sense , I’ve mentioned an interesting initiative from Quest Software, ☞ Toad for Cloud , that, through an indirection layer, would provide a SQL interface to NoSQL databases. There are still lots of open technical questions about such a tool, but I hope to clarify them shortly. …”

  (Tags: NoSQL, riptano, cassandra)

• CouchDB and Node.js

  “Preparing for node.js Knockout [ 1 ] , a short tutorial on using CouchDB from node.js. The first one that starts with the CouchDB friendly HTTP protocol — I’d say that CouchDB, Riak, and RavenDB are offering probably the smartest and cleanest HTTP based APIs [ 2 ] : …”

  (Tags: node.js, coouchdb)

• Membase History and Internals

  “Matt Ingenthron (NorthScale) talking Membase history and internals. …”

  (Tags: membase)

• Redis Snippet for Storing the Social Graph

  “We are leaving the Twitter, Facebook days, so a couple of days ago we were looking at two examples of storing friend lists in Redis and MySQL and wondering which one is simpler. Eric Florenzano ( @ericflo ) shared a Gist exemplifying storing a simple social graph in Redis: …”

  (Tags: redis)

• Couchio or CouchOne?

  “There doesn’t seem to be a PR announcement (yet), but I’m hearing Couchio, the company started by CouchDB creators, is rebranding to CouchOne: …”

  (Tags: CouchOne, Couchio, CouchDB)

• CouchDB: A Gentle Introduction for Relational Practitioners

  “Reads like a story: …”

  (Tags: couchdb, NoSQL dabatase)

• Normalization is from the devil

  “Based on his experience building a document database, RavenDB , Ayende writes about data normalization: …”

  (Tags: document store, document database, NoSQL databases)

• MySQL is Not ACID Compliant

  “This is becoming a “ trend “: …”

  (Tags: fun, postgresql, mysql)

• Think Twice Before Sharding

  “Andrew Glover: …”

  (Tags: sharding, NoSQL databases)

• MongoDB: Java Frameworks Compared

  “Knut Haugen takes a look at MongoDB Java Driver, Morphia, and Mungbean: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL libraries, mongodb, java)

• Redis: Java Libraries

  “Staying in the Java land, I’ve put together this short list of Redis Java libraries as I’m looking myself for a stable one: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL libraries, redis, java)

• BigCouch: Java Map-Reduce with CouchDB

  “Feels like a conspiracy to have the 3rd Java related post today, but the one from Cloudant is quite big: …”

  (Tags: couchdb, BigCouch, mapreduce, cloudant)

• NoSQL CouchDB founder turns to phone and cloud services

  “Gavin Clarke (The Register): …”

  (Tags: CouchOne, couchdb, mobiles, NoSQL, Couchio)

• HBase GUI Admin: HBaseXplorer

  “I haven’t seen any HBase admin tools before — except maybe Toad for Cloud , but that’s SQL on top of HBase. HBaseXplorer source code is available on ☞ GitHub . It currently supports the following features: …”

  (Tags: HBase)

• Redis 2.0.1 Released, Bug Fixes

  “Redis has a new bug fix release: …”

  (Tags: redis, NoSQL releases)

• 3 Reasons to Use MongoDB

  “Ryan Angilly: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL sharding, mongodb, mapreduce, gridfs)

• NoSQL Databases Bring Stored Procedures Back In Fashion

  “Very interesting parallel from Shahzad Bhatti: …”

  (Tags: NoSQL databases)

• Redis: Support in Grails Reaches Milestone 1

  “In February, while reviewing Grails support for NoSQL databases , I’ve listed CouchDB, HBase, Neo4j, and Google AppEngine. But siince then, many things have changed. Redis is now under VMWare’s umbrella too , so today’s announcement of adding support for Redis in Grails should not be a surprise: …”

  (Tags: grails, redis, gorm)

• Node.js and MongoDB for Multiplayer Online Scrabble

  “The complete story of the ☞ Scrabb.ly , a multiplayer online Scrabble, built during the 48 Node Knockout. The only part about MongoDB: …”

  (Tags: node.js, mongodb)

• Podcast: On HBase and Hadoop with Cloudera's Todd Lipcon

  “Teaser: …”

  (Tags: HBase, cloudera, hadoop)

• CouchDB for Android. iPhone Next?

  “CouchDB got quite some press with the announcement of CouchOne Mobile [ 1 ] . In the light of the changes in Apple policy [ 2 ] , I am wondering if the iDevices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) are next. …”

  (Tags: android, couchdb, apple, mobiles, iphone)

• CouchDB: Getting Started using PHP

  “I hope you like this first sight of the CouchDB database. Couch have many other features, but the documents and views are the central part of the system : once those are well understood, the rest is easily understandable. The most difficult part, as said in the introduction, is to forget years of SQL thinking to build web applications. …”

  (Tags: couchdb, NoSQL tutorial, php)

• MongoDB: Tips & Tricks & Hacks

  “Nice collection of (probably) not so well know MongoDB tips and tricks: …”

  (Tags: mongodb)

• Pomegranate: A Solution for Storing Tiny Little Files

  “Storing small files is a problem that many (file) systems have tried to solve with different degrees of success. Hadoop has had to tackle this problem and came up with Hadoop archive . Pomegranate is a new distributed file system that focuses on increasing the performance of storing and accessing small files: …”

  (Tags: pomegranate, fs, hadoop)

• CouchDB Reference to JS Functions, CommonJS modules, URL Rewrites

  “Caolan McMahon shares the documentation he put together for CouchDB JavaScript functions, CommonJS modules that can be used in CouchDB design documents, and URL rewrites: …”

  (Tags: couchdb)