by Angela Guess
A recent article discusses a great resource for businesses and individuals interested in NoSQL technology: “The NoSQL movement had hit its stride. But for those of us on the outside, the conversations about Cassandra, HBase, Hive and MongoDB are hard to parse, maybe even unintelligible. But if you really want to know, there’s a website that can help. The NoSQL Tapes is a collection of videos shot by Tim Anglade in a journey around the world made last summer to discuss what was happening in data storage and access.”
It continues, “The tapes, which have attracted 17,000 unique visitors to the site, are well done and can offer a good overview of technologies from specific (Mike Miller on MapReduce) to general (Ben Black on NoSQL and cloud computing). They are helpful primers on their various topics, but they also capture a moment in tech history when a disparate group of engineers got together to build tools using open source software. The videos showcase the use cases for technology as well as attempt to engage people on the technical merits of each project, as opposed to a bunch of marketing speak.”
The article adds, “As Anglade told me in a conversation, these videos represent a time before NoSQL ‘moved toward the enterprise’ and became overrun with marketing. Now an evangelist at Cloudant, which offers a platform for CouchDB, Anglade recalls his summer of running around interviewing technologists fondly. The site launched in January, and so far Anglade has put up about 20 videos and has about 20 more to process and put on the site (although not all of those may make the grade). At about an hour-long, the videos on the site represent a huge time commitment, and the NoSQL community has been the primary audience.”
photo credit: The NoSQL Tapes
