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Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr
by
Ken Little
Posted on
Sep 24, 2012
Ken Little talks about scaling Tumblr to keep up with their blogging users: scaling the data model, sharding, their PHP frontend and the Scala backend, and much more.
Articles about Columnar Databases
Implementing Lucene Spatial Support
by
Boris Lublinsky
Posted on
Jan 13, 2012
Lucene geospatial extension proposed in this article is based on a two level search – first level search is based on Cartesian Grid search and the second level implements shape specific spatial calculations
Integrating Lucene with HBase
by
Boris Lublinsky, Mike Segel
Posted on
Dec 29, 2011
The article describes overall design and implementation of integrating Lucene search library with HBase back end. It describes integration architecture, implementation and HBase tables design
Presentations about Columnar Databases
Spring Data - NoSQL - No Problems... by Peter Bell Posted on Oct 18, 2012 00:54:49
NetApp Case Study by Kumar Palaniapan and Scott Fleming Posted on Jun 01, 2012 00:54:21
HBase @ Facebook by Kannan Muthukkaruppan Posted on Sep 29, 2011 01:08:08
NoSQL at Twitter by Kevin Weil Posted on Dec 23, 2010 00:55:43
News about Columnar Databases
Phoenix: Running SQL Queries on Apache HBase [Updated] by Abel Avram Posted on Jan 31, 2013
Precog: Big Data Analytics as a Service by Abel Avram Posted on Oct 03, 2012
Apache HBase on Amazon EMR by Boris Lublinsky Posted on Jun 15, 2012
Apache Hadoop 1.0.0 Supports Kerberos Authentication, Apache HBase and RESTful API to HDFS by Srini Penchikala Posted on Jan 13, 2012
eBay readies next generation search built with Hadoop and HBase by Ron Bodkin Posted on Nov 13, 2011
Yahoo Hadoop Spinout Hortonworks Announces Plans by Ron Bodkin Posted on Jun 29, 2011
Facebook on Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and A/B Testing by Ron Bodkin Posted on Jul 14, 2010




