March 12, 2010
Some NoSQL links
I plan to post a few things soon about MongoDB, Cassandra, and NoSQL in general. So I’m poking around a bit reading stuff on the subjects. Here are some links I found.
- A little over a year ago, Julian Browne put up a great post on Eric Brewer’s CAP conjecture/theorem, which provides much of the impetus to relax the traditional requirement for atomicity/consistency.
- Even more directly inspirational to NoSQL technology development were two seminal papers: Google’s on BigTable and Amazon’s on Dynamo. (That said, I’m having trouble getting myself to actually read them from start to finish, especially since they’ve been superseded by subsequent technology development.)
- 10gen (the MongoDB guys) hosted a NoSQL conference yesterday. Much blogging has ensued. The best post I’ve seen so far was by Adam Marcus. I find the graph database notes near the bottom particularly interesting.
- Mark Callaghan hit back against the NoSQL movement hype, and in particular against the MySQL/memcached is passe‘ meme. On the other hand, he also bemoaned many failings of MySQL. On the third hand, he praised or at least expressed hope for a variety of MySQL-related technologies, including Tokutek’s TokuDB and Continuent’s Tungsten.
- In connection with that debate, Mark Rendle offered a funny rant, mainly pro-NoSQL, in the style of a Socratic dialogue.
- John Quinn of Digg recently described Digg’s move from MySQL to Cassandra, and outlined a lot of features Digg was adding to Cassandra, all of which it is open-sourcing.
- The NoSQL guys maintain their own long list of NoSQL-related links.
Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Cassandra, Continuent, Google, MySQL, NoSQL, Open source, RDF and graphs, Tokutek and TokuDB
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And there is also the myNoSQL http://nosql.mypopescu.com with daily news, articles and analysis of the whole NoSQL space.
Kurt – I hope others don’t perceive my blog post as hitting back against the NoSQL movement. I am very impressed by HBase and Cassandra and look forward to their futures.
Mark,
Would it have been more accurate to say you were hitting back against NoSQL hype, or what you perceive as NoSQL exaggeration? 🙂
Sure. This is an interesting time. Many groups are evaluating whether to use Cassandra, HBase or other NoSQL solutions. Some will migrate, some will migrate for the right reasons and some will do a good job with their migration. Regardless, this means more interesting work for people who build database servers and more work for people who advise others on when to migrate. Eventually it might mean that some of us don’t have to work so hard to keep things running in production.
I hope that more NoSQL db’s become available for the windows OS. Most only support linux.