The meteoric growth of MySQL through the 1990s and 2000s were marked by some big in the enterprise database market—a willingness to adopt open source software for critical business applications, and the emergence of a new class of database-backed web applications that needed a simpler, cheaper and more flexible storage …
OpenTSDB was built at StumbleUpon, a company highly experienced with HBase. It’s a great example of how to build an application with HBase as its backing store. OpenTSDB is open source so you have complete access to the code. This article based on chapter 2 from HBase in Action explains …
PostgreSQL and Python share more then the first letter: their communities have great similiarities; their development processes are really comparable; their licenses and their openness to academics AND business (on a technical and communitie perspective) are big pluses. We will have a look at those similiarities and learn why PostgreSQL …
There is nothing more fascinating and utterly mind-bending than traversing a graph. Those who succumb to this data processing pattern euphorically suffer from graph pathology. It is no coincidence that the study of graph traversals is known, in academic circles, as Pathology. This lecture will shed light on recent Pathological …
Hank is an open source Batch-Updateable Read-Only Key/Value Distributed Database. Hank is designed to run on clusters of heterogeneous commodity machines and interacts readily with Hadoop and Cascading. This video covers how it differs from other distributed database options, how Rapleaf uses it and briefly discusses the architecture of the …
This video presents the new Firebird 2.5 Trace API to continuously monitor Firebird databases and its usage in real-world scenarios. Five new services relating to the management of the new user trace sessions have been added to the Services Manager in release 2.5, each with its corresponding Services API action …
