Wednesday, March 16, 2011

DataStax Wants To Make Cassandra The Best NoSQL Of Them Al

The NoSQL databases featuring massive scalability developed for and used by the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have created a whole new category.  Amazingly (or not) most of the competitors in this space are open source projects.  Most of these open source projects also have corporate entities that have sprung up around them to offer support and services. Perhaps the first and one of the better known of these open source NoSQL projects is CassandraDataStax is the company that is bringing Cassandra support, products and services to market.
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A great interactive tutorial for MongoDB

From http://www.crystal-asia.com
a nice tutorial to start with  MongoDB

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Setting up a Hadoop development environment

From http://www.techrepublic.com
Hadoop is a platform for performing distributed computing. That’s easy enough to understand, right? There are some add-ons for things such as distributed file storage and distributed database access, but at the heart of it, Hadoop is a processing platform that partitions the work across multiple machines in a cluster.
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