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Costin Leau on Elasticsearch, BigData and Hadoop
Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. The first milestone of elasticsearch-hadoop 1.3.M1 was released last month. InfoQ spoke with Costin Leau about Elasticsearch and how it integrates with Hadoop and other Big Data technologies.
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Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition
The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.
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Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Capacity Planning and Monitoring
In this article, author Mat Keep discusses the deployment best practices of MongoDB databases with focus on capacity planning and monitoring aspects. He also explains the topics like hardware selection, key metrics for monitoring and when it’s time to add shards.
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How to Make Your In-memory NoSQL Datastores Enterprise-Ready
In this article, author Yiftach Schoolman outlines how to overcome the top seven challenges associated with managing the in-memory NoSQL datastores in the cloud. He discusses the challenges like availability, consistency during and after network splits, data durability, scalability, and ops overhead.
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How Fog Creek Software Made Kiln's Search 1000x Faster with Elasticsearch
ElasticSearch is an open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine. This is the story of how Elasticsearch helped Fog Creek Software make Kiln’s Search 1000x faster.
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Database Versioning and Delivery with Upgrade Scripts
Konrad Lukasik provides practical advice on versioning and preparing a database for delivery using upgrade scripts. The article is based on experiences from enterprise environment and includes accompanying scripts and table definitions.
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How to Provide SQL Access to NoSQL Type Data using Multi-Record Type
In this article, author Randal Hoff shows how to use Multi-Record Type pattern to provide both NoSQL and SQL access to c-treeACE data that combines multiple schemas in a single table.
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Building Scalable Applications in .NET: Introducing the FatDB Distributed Computing Platform
Justin Weiler introduces FatDB, a NoSQL DB and a distributed platform built on Mission Oriented Architecture meant to abstract and generalize the essential characteristics of enterprise applications.
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Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 2
In Part 2 of this article the author takes a look at how the transaction system is implemented, the role of the administrative layer, how all components work together and what to expect in the future.
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Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1
In Part 1 of this article the author introduces NuoDB and covers some of its main features: 3-tiered architecture, nodes are equal peers, Atoms - the fundamental data unit, and the versioning and concurrency system used to handle data update conflicts and implement consistency.
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Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
In his new article Kai Wähner compares several alternatives for installing a version of Hadoop and realizing big data processes. He compares distributions and tooling from Apache and many other vendors including Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft. He additionally describes pros and cons of every distribution and provides a decision tree for choosing a most appropriate one.
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Apache MetaModel – Providing Uniform Data Access Across Various Data Stores
MetaModel - an Apache Incubator project – is a Java library used to browse, query and update various types of data stores including traditional SQL databases, unusual stores such as CSV or Excel, or the more modern NoSQL stores in a uniform and programmatic way.