Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Nov 23rd, 2009
Ricky Ho has done a great job of providing a thorough overview of the characteristics and patterns of what are being terms NOSQL products. This includes looking at products purporting to be NOSQL products, API’s ,data partitioning, data replication, client consistency, vector clock, and more. A very good read.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 14th, 2009
Apache Hadoop is a (free) software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and huge amounts of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers. Hadoop was originally a sub-project of Lucene before it became a Top Level Project at Apache. [...]
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