Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:00AM | Derek Stainer Skills Matter is hosting the first annual NoSQL eXchange this November. Jim Webber has kindly agreed to be the Program Lead for this conference, and together we are working on a great day of learning and sharing of skills on NoSQL technologies.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer GeoIQ announced today at the Data 2.0 conference the availability of GeoIQ Connect.
GeoIQ Connect is the first and only geospatial product that connects to both traditional relational databases like Oracle and mySQL, and multiple NoSQL object stores like HBase and MongoDB for geospatial visualization and analysis.
Here is the list of fully supported databases:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer MySQL is currently hosting a poll in which they have asked respondents to answer the following question:
Which open source NoSQL databases are you using?
While there is not enough of responses, currently at 112 at the time of writing, it's still interesting to see the responses. One note about the results is that multiple databases were allowed to be selected. Here are the current results, as of 3/22 at 10:45pm, of some of the various NoSQL databases.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 10:57AM | Derek Stainer Interesting post on how a developer at AOL is using Riak in AdLearn. What is AdLearn?
AdLearn is the brains behind AOL's network advertising business. It attempts to find the best ad for a given impression. An impression is the displaying of an ad on a piece of inventory. A piece of inventory might be a banner on a website, for example. AdLearn takes many factors into account including past performance, targeting, campaign type, etc. to schedule the right ad for any given impression.
AOL, AdLearn, Advertising.com, Riak, Riak Core, Riak KV, RiakSearch Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 7:00AM | Derek Stainer Linkfluence has written a post discussing their decision to migrate away from CouchDB and to Riak. Why would they decide to move approximately 35 million documents and over 2 TB of data? According to their post three reasons:
In addition to discusses the issues they ran into with CouchDB they also discuss why they chose Riak and why they decided to enlist the assistance of Basho by obtaining a support contract.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 9:29AM | Derek Stainer Fresh off the news of the Membase and CouchOne merger. Details have emerged that Basho Technologies, creator of Riak, have closed half of what is a 7.5 million dollar round. The investment is being made by both Georgetown Partners, as well as, Danish systems integrator Trifork AS. In addition to being part of the financing TriFork will become Basho's European distributor of Riak. The other half (approximately 4 million dollars) is expected to close within the next 90 days. With the additional funds Basho expects to expand their marketing and sales teams.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 6:00AM | Derek Stainer SAN FRANCISCO - January 25, 2011 - Jaspersoft today released a broad set of software to support a wide variety of Big Data sources for Business Intelligence (BI) reporting. Companies are storing more and more of their data in data stores such as Hadoop, NoSQL databases and massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic databases because of their inherent cost and scale advantages relative to traditional databases. Today, with the release of over a dozen Big Data connectors as part of its open source “Big Data Reporting” project, as well as beta connectors for selected Big Data proprietary databases, Jaspersoft becomes the first and only BI vendor to deliver native reporting for Hadoop, NoSQL and MPP analytic databases.
Cassandra, Jaspersoft, MongoDB, Neo4J, Riak Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 8:00AM | Derek Stainer Here is a presentation from Sean Cribbs of Basho Technologies. In the presentation Cribbs provides us an introduction to Riak and some of its core features such as map/reduce.
Basho, Riak, Sean Cribbs Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 12:00PM | Derek Stainer Here are the NoSQL Links for today November 23rd, 2010
Chris Gioran, GORM, Jon Brisban, Neo4J, Riak, Spring Data Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer We've written twice (here and here) about Adrian Cockcroft's NetFlix use case comparison posts. It seems that the folks, specifically Justin Sheehy of Basho, have responded to Adrian's questions.
Check out Riak's answers: NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for Riak
Adrian Cockcroft, Basho, Justin Sheehy, Netflix, Riak Friday, November 5, 2010 at 6:00AM | Derek Stainer Map/Reduce query mechanisms are nothing new in NoSQL. Several NoSQL databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB. This next presentation by Kevin Smith of Basho Technologies describes Riak's use of Map/Reduce as its query and data processing system.
Basho Technologies, Kevin Smith, Riak Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 10:00AM | Derek Stainer Joyent has published the results of performance tests they have executed against Basho's Riak Key/Value NoSQL database.
The goal of the study was to demonstrate a baseline for users to understand Riak’s performance, stability, predictability, and linear scalability. The systems were not tuned for optimal performance. Instead, we chose to take standard 4 GB Riak Smartmachines and demonstrate throughput and latency for various access patterns and object sizes.
Check out the full results: Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details
Basho, Joyent, Perfomance Tests, Riak Friday, October 22, 2010 at 6:00AM | Derek Stainer We have another presentation about Riak. Much like yesterday's post about Riak this one is also from Rusty Klophaus of Basho Technologies. While yesterday's presentation focused on scaling Riak from a single machine into a cluster of machines, this presentation focuses on Riak's internals.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 12:00PM | Derek Stainer Basho Technologies have announced the release of Riak version 0.13.
Perhaps the biggest feature of this release is Riak Search:
Riak Search is a distributed, easily-scalable, failure-tolerant, real-time, full-text search engine built around Riak Core and tightly integrated with Riak's key/value layer
Other features include:
Read the full release announcement here
Download Riak 0.13 here
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:01AM | Derek Stainer Joyent and Basho are teaming up for a webinar on NoSQL database performance in the cloud. The webinar is this morning at 10am PST.
Here is a description from the site:
Join Bryan Cantrill, VP of Engineering at Joyent, and Justin Sheehy, CTO at Basho, for a discussion of database performance in the cloud and a review of recent benchmarks of the new Joyent Riak SmartMachines. We will review some of the scalability and performance challenges facing traditional cloud databases and the performance gains you can expect from distributed key value stores over traditional database architectures in the cloud.
The webinar will cover:
- Expectations of distributed databases compared to traditional RDBMS
- Introduction and overview of Basho Riak
- Review of benchmark data of the Joyent Riak SmartMachines
To sign up for here: Joyent and Basho: NoSQL Database Performance in the Cloud
