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Day October 8, 2010

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What I’m Reading – 2010-10-08

Oct 8, ’10 1:05 PM

Cassandra: RandomPartitioner vs OrderPreservingPartitioner Data order is important in relational databases and it’s something that you need to be aware of with a non-relational database, too. Improperly ordered data can put a huge load on a few nodes in a cluster. This article goes over the trade-offs in Cassandra of using a random data order vs key ordered data.

liblfds Want to write your own NoSQL database in C? These (free) libraries should make it pretty easy to do. They’d probably work good for other projects. If nothing else, it’s a good read to see how some of the underlying data structures are implemented.

Riak Bitcask Capacity Planning Spreadsheet We have capacity planning tools for our relational database, why not have one for our non-relational databases?

Foursquare outage post mortem Foursquare uses the NoSQLs (specifically MongoDB). They had a big nasty outage last week. One of the interesting things this thread brings up is that NoSQL databases still require a good knowledge of their internals in high performance scenarios. You can’t abstract away the problems even if you abstract away how data is stored on disk.

Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design There are some things that are really different. Get your learn on.

Prime Number Shitting Bear

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Syndicated Bloggers at CloudDBPedia

Oct 8, ’10 9:00 AM

I’ve been quiet about the bloggers we’ve been adding over at CloudDBPedia, I’m going to fix that. Today I’m happy to announce that we are syndicating 11 RSS feeds.

  • 2 Blokes Marketing – Christian Hasker and Andy Grant should be familiar to fans of SQLServerPedia, they’ve been instrumental in SQLServerPedia’s growth and they bring an interesting marketing slant to the conversation.
  • Brent Ozar – Brent hasn’t been talking much about NoSQL recently, but when he does he comes to the table with the viewpoint of a SQL Server DBA.
  • Buck Woody – Buck Woody is a recent addition to the Azure team at Microsoft. He brings 20+ years of experience to the table with databases and software design.
  • Guy Harrison – Guy is the Director of Research and Development at Quest. He lives in Australia and creates some interesting software like Toad for Cloud Databases. Guy has also authored two books, one on Oracle and one covering MySQL.
  • Jeremiah Peschka – hooray for me! I like data. I’m interested in NoSQL and cloud solutions because they make some interesting changes to how we all think about information storage.
  • Kevin Kline – Kevin is another Database Expert at Quest. He is the author of SQL in a Nutshell and is an all around good guy.
  • Kyle Banker – Kyle is a developer at 10gen, makers of MongoDB. Kyle maintains the Ruby driver for MongoDB.
  • Ayende Rahien – Ayende is well known as a founding or contributing to a number of open source projects (NHibernate, Castle, Rhino Mocks, NHibernate Query Analyzer, Rhino Commons) and is a prolific blogger. In addition, he is also writing RavenDB – a document database implemented in .NET.
  • Randy Guck – Randy works at Quest Software and has worked on a variety of platforms.
  • Kristina Chodorow works for 10gen, makers of MongoDB. She works on the core MongoDB server as well as the Perl and PHP drivers and has recently published a book about MongoDB.
  • The Basho Blog is the collective blog of the makers of Riak. In addition to blogging about their own database, there are a lot of links to presentations that Basho team members are doing at user groups, conferences, and online.

I want to say thank you to the bloggers who have generously agreed to syndicate their blog at CloudDBPedia.

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