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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Will NoSQL Rescue the World Of Data in the Cloud? (Info and Links for the Tech Curious)

In a week, I will have three weeks off from work, and since I usually give in to my inner geek when I'm on vacation, I thought I'd find out more about cloud computing and NoSQL today.   I was overwhelmed by what I found within the first minutes of my search! (It has been about 4 years since I took a database class.)

The first place I visited was the O'Reilly Radar blog, which usually has a few interesting links about emerging technologies: Four Short Links: 11 December 2009 (Nat Torkington)

Eureka!
Number 2 on Torkington's list of links:
NoSQL Required Reading   "Papers and presentations to get up to speed in the theory and practice of scalable key-value data stores" (via Hacker News)

Here is a sample of some of the info I found during my first trip down the NoSQL rabbit hole:

Braindump Blog
NoSQL Debrief, (Johanos Karsson)
"The idea was to give attendees a solid introduction to how distributed, non relational databases work as well as an overview of the various projects out there." (The NoSQL DeBrief includes a variety of presentation slides and videos that I'm planning on viewing on my next tour of the rabbit hole.)

Pragmatic Programming Techniques (Ricky Ho's blog)
Query PRocessing for NoSQL DB
   "The recent rise of NoSQL provides an alternative model in building extremely large scale storage system. Nevetheless, compare to the more mature RDBMS, NoSQL has some fundamental limitations that we need to be aware of. It calls for a more relaxed data consistency model.It provides primitive querying and searching capability."
     "There are techniques we can employ to mitigate each of these issue. Regarding the data consistency concern, I have discussed a number of design patterns in my previous blog* to implement system with different strength of consistency guarantee."
*NoSQL Patterns

All Things Distributed - Werner Vogel's weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems: Eventually Consistent- Revisited

Website

Quick Reference to Alternative Data Storages

Website

NoSQL "Your Ultimate Guide to the Non-Relational Universe!

Cloud Computing: Ground Computing, Local to the User: CouchDB - Local Web Platform

View more documents from Chris Anderson. (Interesting visual on the slides. Chris has a good sense of humor.)

Video Version from YouTube Google Tech Talks: Chris Anderson Discusses CouchDB

Chris is "Obsessed with bending the physics of the web to give control back to the user".

Dave Rosenberg's Software, Interrupted Blog, CNET News 12/9/09

NoSQL and the Future of Cloud Databases

Follow NOSQL Update on Twitter

Update 12/12/09

Here are a few more links, thanks to Nati Shalom:

Why Existing Databases (RAC) are So Breakable! Nati Shalom (11/30/09)

No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam- My Take Nati Shalom (7/9/09)

Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing? Todd Hoff (3/16/09)

Other alternatives: In-Memory Data Grid

SOMEWHAT RELATED

I hope this won't be another "boys club" thing. The NoSQL community doesn't appear to have many representatives from an important gender that will increasingly rely on cloud computing technologies during their daily lives.

I stand corrected.

Delegates at the Berlin NoSQL meeting- there looks like there are at least three women in the group:

Monika Moser was a presenter at the NoSQL conference and was featured in a blog post written by Isabel Drost and Jan Lehnardt: Happenings: NoSQL Conference, Berlin

"More and more web applications have data storage requirements that can't be fully met using traditional relational databases. Object-oriented and document-oriented databases provide an alternative – and a field of development that has recently seen much activity."

According to the information on post, Monika developed the transactional storage layer of Scalaris, and is currently an Erlang/Ruby/Hadoop developer at nugg.ad.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Media Facades Festival, Berlin October 16 through December 12, 2008

Here is the link:

Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008: Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens

"The MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL BERLIN 2008 is an innovative project, engaging a wide range of stakeholders with distinctive interests in the public space. Through round tables, a workshop, panel sessions, lectures, urban screenings on media facades and an architecture exhibition the event will promote a multi-disciplinary action research approach to technology, architecture and media art in modern cities."

"Media façades can combine aspects of lighting and graphics in formats determined by the architecture, these might differ fundamentally in format, resolution and dimension from the rectilinear media image. Moving imagery has increasingly become interactive and emergent and often have to work without sound, so they question narrative storytelling known from other traditional media. Content can be synthesised from or driven by information from the environment, whether it be from within the building or from the outside world, or through channels such as the internet.

In connection with locative and mobile media, new forms of content production can develop that create through participatory approaches new relations between the imagery and the surrounding urban space and its citizen." - from the introduction

Pictures from the Media Facades Festival Site and other related pictures from Media Architecture: