Outside of politics and religion, nothing can get the blood rolling in tech folk’s bodies more than a healthy debate on the merits of operating systems, such as Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac. Personally, I’ve never used Mac in a production environment, but I have plenty of experience ...
Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database management system. It is designed to handle very large amounts of data spread out across many commodity servers while providing a highly available service with no single point of failure.
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Cassandra
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Idempotent Updates with Cassandra
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Getting Started
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BigData Driving Adoption of NoSQL in the Enterprise
According to a recent Evans Data Study, “NoSQL is being rapidly accepted by corporate enterprise developers in North America with 56% reporting at least some use of the schemaless database and 63% citing plans to use in the next two years according to Evans Data’s recently released North American ...
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Building Our Own Federated Database
We’ve already talked about The Promise and Failure of Federated Databases and Why Don’t We Have Federated Databases. At the end of the second post I concluded that the only real way to solve this problem is to build the federated database ourselves. Before you ask, “Does he ...
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Why Don’t We Have Federated Databases?
Federated databases are a dream that have not materialized. The SQL/MED extension to the ANSI/ISO SQL specification is a step in the right direction. In addition, both SQL Server and Oracle have proprietary extensions that make it possible to query external data sources. If all of this technology ...
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Reason 2 why business stakeholders should care about NoSQL.
In a previous post I touched on a technical reason that business users should be in communication with developers using a NoSQL database. Here is reason number 2: Data Access.Relational databases have been around for so long, and have become so common and ubiquitous, that nobody really gives any ...
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Reason 1 why business stakeholders should care about NoSQL.
Most cutting-edge developers love the idea of using so-called NoSQL databases. Here is a helpful summary by my friend and colleague, Guy Harrison, that shows some of the big reasons behind their popularity. While this is, in fact, largely a technical decision, there are a few things the business users ...
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Document Databases - They May Not Mean What You Think
I was in a discussion with a guy whom I consider to be an above average technologist. He did a cursory investigation of some of the new databases on the market, among them MongoDB and CouchDB. I was asking him what he saw as the biggest benefit of these document ...