Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Replication and the latency-consistency tradeoff

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As 24/7 availability becomes increasingly important for modern applications, database systems are frequently replicated in order to stay up ...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Overview of the Oracle NoSQL Database

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Oracle is the clear market leader in the commercial database community, and therefore it is critical for any member of the database communit...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hadoop's tremendous inefficiency on graph data management (and how to avoid it)

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Hadoop is great. It seems clear that it will serve as the basis of the vast majority of analytical data management within five years. Alrea...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Why Sam Madden is wrong about peer review

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Yesterday my former PhD advisor, Sam Madden, wrote a blog post consisting of a passionate defense for the status quo in the peer review pro...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Why I'm doing a start-up pre-tenure

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Thanks to the tireless work of the entire Hadapt team, we had a very successful launch at GigaOM's Structure Big Data conference last we...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Why I no longer trust EMC [Update: maybe they are not so bad]

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[Update: After publishing this blog post I received a very pleasant phone call from two representatives from Mozy informing me they had mana...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Machine vs. human generated data

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Curt Monash has recently been discussing the differences between machine-generated data and human-generated data, and trying to define thes...
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