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 …
In this article, based on chapter 2 of MongoDB in Action, author Kyle Banker gives you a practical tour of the most common tasks performed from the MongoDB shell, which lets users examine and manipulate data and administer the database server itself using the JavaScript programming language and a simple …
Cassandra is a scalable, highly available, column-oriented data store in use use at Netflix, Twitter, Urban Airship, Constant Contact, Reddit, Cisco, OpenX, Digg, CloudKick, Ooyala and more companies that have large, active data sets. The largest known Cassandra cluster has over 300 TB of data in over 400 machines.
The talk “MongoDB in Production” was given by Chris Harris and Alvin Richards at the Paris Mongo Day in February 2012. They explained how MongoDB replication works and discussed hardware sizing and monitoring tools.
CouchDB is an open source, document-oriented NoSQL Database Management Server. It supports queries via views using MapReduce and replication. The talk will give an overview of CouchDB followed by how to access and manipulate using Python. There are a number of python libraries for accessing Couchdb and these will be …
This video explains CouchDB and Ruby best practices observed, tried and implemented, from a large pool of examples helping optimize and debug customers applications. Due to the necessity of re-explaining some core CouchDB concepts, this video may function as an introduction to CouchDB, but will also contain valuable lessons for …
