Apache Cassandra Distributed Database
Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database used at Facebook, Digg and Twitter. This video covers Cassandra architecture and data model. Video producer: FOSDEM
Category: NoSQL
HBase at StumbleUpon
HBase committer Ryan Rawson discusses the lesser-known member of the Hadoop ecosystem and how it is used by StumbleUpon. The conversations has digressions on Java and the woes one may experience with a large MySQL deployment. http://nosqltapes.com/video/ryan-rawson-on-hbase-at-stumbleupon
From MySQL to MongoDB at Wordnik
Tony Tam describes Wordnik’s migration from MySQL to MongoDB. Slides of the presentation Video Producer: MongoDB conference San Francisco 2010
Membase for Dummies: Creating a Multi-Node Membase Cluster
This short video walks you through adding multiple nodes to your Membase cluster. http://blog.membase.com/membase-for-dummies-creating-multi-node-membase-clusters
Scaling with Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008. This video explains how Cassandra fits in the NoSQL ecosystem and how it provides application-transparent scalability and availability in the face of challenging real-world scenarios. Watch this video on Oredev.org
MongoDB: The New M in Your LAMP Stack
MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, non-relational, document-oriented database. Trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) in order to achieve much better performance, MongoDB is fast, scalable, and designed for web development. Mongo is in use at SourceForge, Etsy, foursquare, GitHub, NYTimes, …