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The “no-sql” movement has been gaining strength over recent years. There is no denying that relational databases have their role and are highly effective in many cases. However, there are times when the scalability and availability of a relational database can become an issue. The “no-sql” movement is hoping to provide an alternative option to [...]
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Over the past 4 months I have intermittently been looking into the use of the Mulgara RDF triple store. Mulgara is an open-source RDF triple store that boasts to be able to handle up to 7 Billion nodes and was developed some big players in the semantic web space (Zepheira, Topaz and Fedora Commons). My [...]
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Part of the purpose of attending QCon was to get in synch with the tech community in regards to technology they have experimented with and have found use for. The following is a list of technology/frameworks/etc of interest that I took away from the conference: CouchDB – Document oriented database Memcached – Distributed Hashmap MemcacheDB – A database [...]
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I was pretty excited about the “Architectures you’ve always wondered about” stream for day 3 of the conference. It started off horribly. Dan Pritchett of MySpace was up first and basically took the change to showoff his personally little project that allows events from their thousands of servers to notify them what’s going on within [...]
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As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was expecting more from the conference today than I experienced yesterday. What I’m expecting at a tech conference is to talk tech such that the speaker presents their expertise or lessons learned. I didn’t get much of that yesterday but today was another story. We kicked off [...]
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