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by Angela Guess Andrew Lampitt of InfoWorld reports, “Netflix is the big Kahuna of a Web media businesses, with 33 million subscribers in more than 40 countries. As Netflix’s “watch now” streaming service has grown, the company has had to rethink its data and storage strategies to cope with ballooning workloads managed in the...
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by Angela Guess Thumbtack Technology has released a new report on NoSQL databases: “In conjunction with the report published a few months ago entitled Ultra-High Performance NoSQL Benchmarking: Analyzing Durability and Performance Tradeoffs Thumbtack’s latest study focuses on how NoSQL databases perform during hardware failures. The new report, entitled NoSQL Failover Characteristics: Aerospike, Cassandra,...
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by Angela Guess Jonathan Ellis of DataStax recently opined, “The big news for MySQL 5.6 was the inclusion of ‘NoSQL’ features in the form of a memcached api for get and put operations. In cases like this, it’s tough to tell whether Oracle got this so wrong deliberately to sow confusion in the market, or because they...
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by Angela Guess According to a recent release out of the company, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v1.2, the latest version of the highly-scalable, fault-tolerant, Big Data distributed database. Successfully handling thousands of requests per second,...
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by Angela Guess Sergey Bushik of IDG recently offered a vendor-independent comparison of Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, and Riak. He writes, “In 2012, the number of NoSQL products reached 120-plus and the figure is still growing. That variety makes it difficult to select the best tool for a particular case. Database vendors usually measure productivity...
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by Angela Guess Peter Wayner of InfoWorld has shared a list of ten second generation NoSQL databases that stand out from the crowd. He writes, “The NoSQL buzzword caught fire just a few short years ago, but we’re already well into the second generation of the movement. While the early stacks of code were...
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by Angela Guess According to a new release, DataStax has announced “the completion of a $25 million C round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital. This latest round of capital comes in the wake of explosive demand for DataStax, with company bookings...
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by Angela Guess Jay Patel of the eBay Tech Blog has written a series of articles regarding best practices for Cassandra data modeling. He writes, “This is the first in a series of posts on Cassandra data modeling, implementation, operations, and related practices that guide our Cassandra utilization at eBay. Some of these best...
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by Angela Guess Alan Shimel of Network World reports that Apache’s Cassandra has released version 1.1 of the NoSQL database. Shimel notes that the new release “has significant new features among which are improved caching, a revised query language and better Hadoop integration. I had a chance to chat with Jonathon Ellis, the project...
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by Angela Guess DataStax, the company that commercialized the Cassandra database has added search functions to the NoSQL solution, Timothy Prickett Morgan reports for The Register. Morgan writes, “The new search functions come thanks to the welding of the open source Solr search engine, which like Cassandra is written in Java. Solr is a variant of...
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