Posted in May 21, 2010 ¬ 2:22 amh.Royans
Yesterday Google formally announced Google Storage to a few (5000?) of us at Google I/O. Here is the gist of this as I see it from the various discussions/talks I attended. To begin with, I have to point out that there is almost nothing new in what Google has proposed to provide. Amazon has been [...]
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Posted in February 6, 2010 ¬ 3:14 pmh.Royans
Cassandra is the only NOSQL datastore I’m aware of, which is scalable, distributed, self replicating, eventually consistent, schema-less key-value store running on java which doesn’t have a single point of failure. HBase could also match most of these requirements, but Cassandra is easier to manage due to its tiny footprint. The one thing Cassandra doesn’t [...]
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