Perfect Market's Evaluation of NoSQL Databases

Jun Xu, of Perfect Market, has written a post on Perfect Market's describing their evaluation process for selecting a NoSQL database for their content processing platform. The NoSQL solutions Xu evaluated included MongoDB, Tokyo Cabinet, Voldemort, MemcacheDB/BerkeleyDB and Redis.

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Links of the Day - 2010/07/02

Links of the Day for July 2nd, 2010

• Ask HN: Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Voldemort. Lowest read latency? - There's a discussion going on at HackerNews discussing which Key/Value NoSQL datastore has the lowest read latency. Some good comments and questions to consider.
• Goodbye Tokyo Cabinet, hello PostgreSQL? - Another NoSQL attempt bites the dust. In this case it appears it's not really Tokyo Cabinet's fault. To quote Brian Carper, "I switched to TC to begin with because I was using SQL wrong, and it was too slow and clumsy. Once I figured out how to use SQL correctly, it was a no-brainer to go back."
• LinkedIn, Apache Pig, and Open Source - Russell Jurney discusses LinkedIn's usage of Pig at LinkedIn.