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 ...
HBase is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS, providing a fault-tolerant way of storing large quantities of sparse data.
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Facebook Messaging - HBase Comes of Age
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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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The Promise and Failure of Federated Data
One of the biggest problems facing businesses today is integrating data from multiple sources. The holy grail of data integration is called a federated database system. Basically, a federated database stores meta data about other databases and makes it easier to integrate them through a single interface. Many relational databases ...