The HyperDex team recently released HyperLeveldb, a high performance
fork of Google's LevelDB. We'll look inside the key changes made
within HyperLevelDB that improve its performance.
Back to blogging after a short quiescent period, to give time for eventual consistency to catch up.
Wherein I summarize the hidden message behind Yahoo's purchase of Summly.
There are many conflicting definitions for Consistency. This post provides a clear definition for each, without rehashing any tired old arguments about eventual consistency.
Some basic rules for a fruitful technical discussion on a topic where emotions run high.
Google Reader's demise is not the end of the Internet, or RSS. All will be well. I provide some constructive suggestions for the people who are upset over this.
More thoughts on the difference between partition-oblivious and partition-tolerant data stores.
A number of NoSQL vendors are trying to repackage partition
obliviousness as if it were partition tolerance. I define
the terms, illustrate the differences, and bust three myths
related to partition tolerance.
We have a huge, emerging industry called NoSQL, and yet there is no proper definition of what it is. This post identifies the problem and proposes a constructive, useful definition.
HyperDex 1.0RC3 offers support for Ruby, OSX and CentOS.