RSS

sogrady + databases   52

Announcing the Drawn-to-Scale Platform! | Road to Failure
large scale data analytics, indexing and search...as a service. spoke with Bradford a week or two ago, and as i told him, this is an interesting proposition. as more folks realize the need for big data processing, the value of such services only goes up.
cloud  database  databases  hadoop  scalability  scaling  hbase  drawntoscale  from delicious
march 2010 by sogrady
Blogging Roller: Trip report: NoSQL meetup at ApacheCon
Dave's report from the NoSQL meetup @ Apacheon
apachecon  nosql  davejohnson  databases  meetup 
november 2009 by sogrady
Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting |  The Cassandra Project
Rackspace on its investments in Cassandra
cassandra  rackspace  facebook  ibm  databases  couchdb  digg  nosql  relational  distributed 
october 2009 by sogrady
Code Monkeyism: The dark side of NoSQL
the tools definitely have their limitations, but a lot of that is lifecycle rather than intrinsic flaws in the approach
nosql  altdb  database  software  cloud  management  databases  couchdb  criticism  cassandra 
october 2009 by sogrady
MySQL vs PostgreSQL comparison - Web and dedicated hosting tutorials by Anchor
just what it says
mysql  postgres  database  databases  postgresql  comparison 
october 2009 by sogrady
The Scale-Out Blog: The Future of Database Clustering
thoughts from the Continuent CTO on where clustering is headed
persistence  clustering  databases  mysql  database  distributed  postgresql  replication 
september 2009 by sogrady
Back to the Future for Data Storage
really excellent piece by Joe that summarizes far more succinctly than I ever have the rapidly evolving database options beyond the one-size-fits-all relational approach.
joegregorio  programming  hypertable  couchdb  simpledb  databases  distributed  relational  scalability  cloudcomputing  bigtable  gae 
february 2009 by sogrady
PostgreSQL EXPLAIN at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
"As always, know your tools. The documentation to PostgreSQL is generally quite good, and the community is amazingly talented. Work with them."
postgresql  chrispetrilli  databases  documentation  queryplanner 
september 2008 by sogrady
fourspaces.com | coding and science from the trenches |
FeatherDB; an alternative to CouchDB
java  featherdb  couchdb  javascript  programming  databases  erlang  via:pmuellr 
april 2008 by sogrady
Twitter / Rafe: Just heard that the Amazon....
"Just heard that the Amazon.com SimpleDB team was hired en masse from the SQL Server team at Microsoft." - i hadn't heard this one. interesting.
amazon  microsoft  simpledb  sqlserver  databases  hiring  poaching 
january 2008 by sogrady
pmuellr: why couchdb
excellent write up of why CouchDB is interesting, from pmueller. not necessarily on boad w/ the collapsing of the web server and the DB, but still, it's compelling.
couchdb  databases  programming  apache 
january 2008 by sogrady
DistStore - Distrubuted Document Store
with a variety of available backends
amazon  api  thrudb  distributed  databases  memcached  berkeleydb  thrift  mysql  via:joshua 
january 2008 by sogrady
SQLite Manager :: Firefox Add-ons
eenteresting...SQLite browswer, again via Firefox.
administration  sqlite  firefox  extensions  databases  via:john 
january 2008 by sogrady
Damien Katz: New Gig
"I've accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM. My primary duties are (drumroll....) CouchDB!" - count me as interested.
apache  couchdb  databases  erlang  http  ibm  concurrency 
january 2008 by sogrady
Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? - Allan Packer's Weblog
Oracle's recent financials argue otherwise, and a great deal of the open source database adoption that i see is in complementary rather than directly competitive roles. still, interesting read.
databases  opensource  mysql  postgresql  oracle  microsoft  db2  via:simon 
december 2007 by sogrady
Bill de hÓra: Phat Data
"The use of RDBMSes as data backbones have to be rethought under these volumes...When the likes of Adam Bosworth, Mike Stonebraker, Pat Helland and Werner Vogels are saying as much, it behooves us to listen." - this drumbeat is getting louder by the day
billdeh  megadata  databases  storage  persistence  s3  hadoop  mogilefs  filesystems 
august 2007 by sogrady
Sam Ruby: Long Bets
"towards desktops with multiple CPU “cores”, and with direct access to terrabytes of data..., we are starting to find the notion that all the data you want is all is one place, all you have to do is form the right query to be increasingly a quaint one
samruby  multicores  databases  megadata  silos  persistence 
august 2007 by sogrady
YouTube Scalability Talk - Kyle Cordes
fascinating talk from the YouTube guys on scalability
architecture  clustering  code  concurrency  databases  scalability  megadata  via:joe 
july 2007 by sogrady
SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » The Perfect DB Storage Array
thoughts on scaling up w/ DB's and storage arrays from the folks over @ SmugMug
smugmug  donmacaskill  databases  storage  arrays  scaling  mysql  conference  youtube  raid 
april 2007 by sogrady
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
great pushback from Ryan on some of the criticisms leveled at Rails by the Twitter crew
rails  ryantomayko  databases  pooling  connection  scalability  performance  postgresql  design 
april 2007 by sogrady
Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | ETech '07 Summary - Part 2 - MegaData
if you liked Adam Bosworth's "Where Have All the Good Databases Gone", this is important, just trust me (see also Bill's comments); on a completely unrelated note, great to meet Joe in person - albeit briefly - last week
joegregorio  databases  storage  scalability  joinless  distributed  bigdata 
april 2007 by sogrady
TheOpenForce.com: MySQL Usage Up 25%
congrats also to MySQL (a RedMonk client) on their growth; while i don't always see eye to eye with Evans, this mirrors what i'm seeing
growth  mysql  ZackUrlocker  databases  traction  metrics 
march 2007 by sogrady
TheOpenForce.com: 6 Out of 7 Massive Sites Use MySQL
speaking of MySQL, interesting use cases as documented by Zack - for a minute i thought Pingdom did this in an automated fashion, which would have been fascinating (if impossible), but not so - standard survey work
pingdom  survey  urlocker  mysql  databases  infrastructure  metrics 
february 2007 by sogrady
PostgreSQL makes clean sweep of DW ISVs?
interesting observation from Josh re: the traction of Postgres w/in the DW ISV market
postgres  databases  datawarehousing  opensource 
february 2007 by sogrady
The 90th percentile: Hsqldb vs Derby
not a big Derby fan, it would seem
derby  hsql  databases  relational 
january 2007 by sogrady
joshua's blog: lessons learned: autoincrement considered harmful
Josh on some MySQL frustrations - and trust me, he would know, having pushed MySQL hard in the last couple of years
mysql  del.icio.us  schachter  autoincrement  opensource  databases 
january 2007 by sogrady
EncoreOpus - Linux, open source, free culture, and more - There's Money in PostgresSQL
yes there is; EnterpriseDB is growing quickly
enterprisedb  postgres  opensource  oracle  support  databases 
november 2006 by sogrady
Oracle unveils first core Berkeley DB release | InfoWorld | News | 2006-09-27 | By China Martens, IDG News Service
as i told a reporter the other day, Oracle - from what i've seen and heard - has been a very solid steward of the critically important BerkeleyDB package
berkeleydb  database  databases  oracle  sleepycat  embedded 
september 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · No Database!?
"there is a psychology out there in our profession,which says: if you have data that you want to store and retrieve, that means you need a database. But sometimes you don’t." amen. on that note, anyone tried Dokuwiki?
dokuwiki  databases  relational  flat  files  filesystem  performance  persistence 
july 2006 by sogrady
Oracle unveils new version of open source BerkeleyDB
new Java version of BerkeleyDB out from Sleepycat/Oracle; i wonder if this is a candidate for the offline browser sweepstakes
sleepycat  berkeleydb  oracle  databases  java  embedded  offline 
may 2006 by sogrady
John Sequeira's Weblog
this validates a comment heard today that EnterpriseDB's doing fairly well
enterprisedb  oracle  migration  sqlserver  databases 
may 2006 by sogrady
Topix.net Weblog: Topix.net Architecture
more props for flat files from the Topix guys
topix  databases  files  flat  google  filesystem  kiss  linux  mysql  rdbms  scalability  search 
may 2006 by sogrady
O'Reilly Radar > Database War Stories #8: Findory and Amazon
more anecdotes via O'Reilly on database trends; this one is via Findory's Linden
linden  o'reilly  databases  flat  files  mysql  scalability  amazon  findory  relational 
may 2006 by sogrady
Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - Thoughts on Flat Files vs Databases
interesting commentary on when flat files should be used over a DB, and how DB's should evolve to be more web server friendly
web  server  mysql  flat  files  databases  relational 
may 2006 by sogrady
OakLeaf Systems: "Free" Databases: Express vs. Open-Source RDBMSs
i've disagreed w/ Roger in the past, but this is a pretty good rundown on some of the open source DBs
opensource  databases  relational  mysql  postgres  hsql  sqlite  sqlserver 
may 2006 by sogrady
MDB Tools - Unlocking Your Data
project to free up Access data
access  database  databases  db  formats  linux  microsoft  mysql  oracle  perl  postgresql  sql  windows  office 
april 2006 by sogrady
John Sequeira's Weblog
Mr. Sequeira on the opportunity around clustering free databases
databases  relational  sequeira  clustering  free  db2  oracle  mysql 
april 2006 by sogrady
Front Page
very interesting DB oriented wiki from Sequeira
sequeira  databases  wiki  opensource  db2  oracle  postgres  mysql 
february 2006 by sogrady
Taking On the Database Giants
pretty good article on the open source database landscape from BusinessWeek; too bad none of my quotes made it in there, but my general line of feedback was that relational wasn't the only model out there
databases  opensource  mysql  ingres  postgres  db2  oracle  ibm  microsoft 
february 2006 by sogrady
'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools
News.com, January 31st, 2006
redmonkpress  mysql  opensource  free  f/oss  db2  oracle  databases 
february 2006 by sogrady
Update: 2006-01-29 : FeedLounge
FeedLounge guys using MogileFS and BerkeleyDB, alongside Postgres - this was one of the examples i had in mind with the post from last week
feedlounge  mogilefs  berkeley  postgres  databases  relational  scalability 
january 2006 by sogrady
ONLamp.com: Introducing Slony
interesting Postgres replication project - Alex/Scott - you guys seen this?
databases  db  postgres  postgresql  replication  slony 
december 2005 by sogrady
Sam Ruby: DB2 interface for Ruby progress
as if more proof were needed that Sam's a very sharp guy
db2  ruby  rails  samruby  databases  ibm 
december 2005 by sogrady
Bizgres MPP - Public Beta
warehousing flavor of Postgres, for DB's over 100 GB - v interesting (via Sequeira)
sequeira  postgres  opensource  databases  data-mining  data-warehousing 
december 2005 by sogrady
ACM Queue - Learning from THE WEB - The Web has taught us many lessons about distributed computing, but some of the most important ones have yet to fully take hold.
great summary of some of Bosworth's previous thoughts
bosworth  atom  kiss  databases  distributed-systems  google  html  performance  scalability  simplicity  sloppy  web2.0 
november 2005 by sogrady
Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us
Google database plans? interesting, though not sure it'd be wise to go after craigslist; work with the community, not against it
community  craigslist  base  google  databases  classifieds  eBay 
october 2005 by sogrady
Computerworld | Sun's software chief eyes databases, groupware
even more interesting interview with Loiacono: Postgres? Sunbird? fascinating (via Ben)
loiacono  sun  postgres  databases  business  jes  sunbird  messaging  collaboration  calendar 
october 2005 by sogrady
Inside LiveJournal's Backend
someone needs to tell LiveJournal that LAMP doesn't scale - i don't think they got that memo (via Alex)
blogging  databases  infrastructure  livejournal  lamp  scalability 
september 2005 by sogrady
IBM's Cloudscape Versus MySQL
interesting, if biased, look at two open source RDBMSs
mysql  derby  cloudscape  rdbms  databases 
july 2005 by sogrady
The Man Also Known As "I'm Batman!": The Linux Desktop Distribution of the Future Part 1
lots of interesting ideas here
design  desktop  distros  linux  usability  databases  filesystems  os-x 
july 2005 by sogrady
John Sequeira's Weblog
interesting thoughts on Meiosys from Sequeira
sequeira  meiosys  databases  mysql  derby  cloudscape  virtualization  xen  opensource 
june 2005 by sogrady
The EnterpriseDB pitch: Pay $0 For Oracle
Sequeira on the EnterpriseDB pitch; if EnterpriseDB runs across this, give me a call, i'd like to catch up
sequeira  enterprisedb  oracle  databases  licensing  opensource 
june 2005 by sogrady

related tags

access ⊕  administration ⊕  altdb ⊕  amazon ⊕  apache ⊕  apachecon ⊕  api ⊕  architecture ⊕  arrays ⊕  atom ⊕  autoincrement ⊕  base ⊕  berkeley ⊕  berkeleydb ⊕  bigdata ⊕  bigtable ⊕  billdeh ⊕  blogging ⊕  bosworth ⊕  business ⊕  calendar ⊕  cassandra ⊕  chrispetrilli ⊕  classifieds ⊕  cloud ⊕  cloudcomputing ⊕  cloudscape ⊕  clustering ⊕  code ⊕  collaboration ⊕  community ⊕  comparison ⊕  concurrency ⊕  conference ⊕  connection ⊕  couchdb ⊕  craigslist ⊕  criticism ⊕  data-mining ⊕  data-warehousing ⊕  database ⊕  databases ⊖  datawarehousing ⊕  davejohnson ⊕  db ⊕  db2 ⊕  del.icio.us ⊕  derby ⊕  design ⊕  desktop ⊕  digg ⊕  distributed ⊕  distributed-systems ⊕  distros ⊕  documentation ⊕  dokuwiki ⊕  donmacaskill ⊕  drawntoscale ⊕  eBay ⊕  embedded ⊕  enterprisedb ⊕  erlang ⊕  extensions ⊕  f/oss ⊕  facebook ⊕  featherdb ⊕  feedlounge ⊕  files ⊕  filesystem ⊕  filesystems ⊕  findory ⊕  firefox ⊕  flat ⊕  formats ⊕  free ⊕  gae ⊕  google ⊕  growth ⊕  hadoop ⊕  hbase ⊕  hiring ⊕  hsql ⊕  html ⊕  http ⊕  hypertable ⊕  ibm ⊕  infrastructure ⊕  ingres ⊕  java ⊕  javascript ⊕  jes ⊕  joegregorio ⊕  joinless ⊕  kiss ⊕  lamp ⊕  licensing ⊕  linden ⊕  linux ⊕  livejournal ⊕  loiacono ⊕  management ⊕  meetup ⊕  megadata ⊕  meiosys ⊕  memcached ⊕  messaging ⊕  metrics ⊕  microsoft ⊕  migration ⊕  mogilefs ⊕  multicores ⊕  mysql ⊕  nosql ⊕  o'reilly ⊕  office ⊕  offline ⊕  opensource ⊕  oracle ⊕  os-x ⊕  performance ⊕  perl ⊕  persistence ⊕  pingdom ⊕  poaching ⊕  pooling ⊕  postgres ⊕  postgresql ⊕  programming ⊕  queryplanner ⊕  rackspace ⊕  raid ⊕  rails ⊕  rdbms ⊕  redmonkpress ⊕  relational ⊕  replication ⊕  ruby ⊕  ryantomayko ⊕  s3 ⊕  samruby ⊕  scalability ⊕  scaling ⊕  schachter ⊕  search ⊕  sequeira ⊕  server ⊕  silos ⊕  simpledb ⊕  simplicity ⊕  sleepycat ⊕  slony ⊕  sloppy ⊕  smugmug ⊕  software ⊕  sql ⊕  sqlite ⊕  sqlserver ⊕  storage ⊕  sun ⊕  sunbird ⊕  support ⊕  survey ⊕  thrift ⊕  thrudb ⊕  topix ⊕  traction ⊕  urlocker ⊕  usability ⊕  via:joe ⊕  via:john ⊕  via:joshua ⊕  via:pmuellr ⊕  via:simon ⊕  virtualization ⊕  web ⊕  web2.0 ⊕  wiki ⊕  windows ⊕  xen ⊕  youtube ⊕  ZackUrlocker ⊕ 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: