The CouchDB document store is well suited to many CRUD style websites. However a particularly interesting aspect of Couch is the _changes feed which streams updates about what is going on inside the database. By using this feed with Node.js, Mikeal Rodgers shows how it’s possible to push data to …
A presentation of the Redis Cluster, the new Redis component that provides linear scalability to Redis. Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. Unlike other distributed stores implementing …
A presentation of the various data and querying models available in today’s distributed data stores landscape. This session reviews what models and APIs are available and discusses the capabilities each of them provides, the applicable use cases and what it means for your application’s performance and scalability.
Matt Ingenthron of Couchbase presents the UnQL language. UnQL means Unstructured Query Language. It’s an open query language for JSON, semi-structured and document databases. This language is the brainchild of Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, and Damien Katz, CTO of Couchbase and creator of CouchDB.
Apache HBase is the Hadoop database, a distributed, scalable, big data store. HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google’s Bigtable. This video discusses the new features that ship in the just released HBase 0.92.0 and interesting near-horizon developments.
Using Apache Cassandra from Python is easy to do. This talk covers setting up and using a local development instance of Cassandra from Python. It covers using the low level thrift interface, as well as using the higher level pycassa library.
