• Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist

  Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist : Your ( ) tweet ( ) blog post ( ) marketing material ( ) online commentadvocates a way to beat the CAP theorem. Your idea will not work. Here iswhy it won't work: Andrei Savu Original title and link: Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist ( NoSQL database…

• Aerospike: One week of being open source

  Aerospike: One week of being open source : Brian Bulkowski, co-founder and CTO of Aerospike 1 about the recent announcement of open sourcing Aerospike (and a new round of funding) : We didn't want to open source too early and lose the benefits of focus – nortoo late and lose the benefits of…

• Using Elastic MapReduce as a generic Hadoop cluster manager

  Using Elastic MapReduce as a generic Hadoop cluster manager : Steve McPherson for the AWS Blog: Despite the name Elastic MapReduce, the service goes far beyond batch-oriented processing. Clusters in EMR have a flexible and rich cluster-management framework that users can customize to run any…

• Three questions about MapR and their products.

  There are three things that I'd really appreciate some help understanding: MapR says it is an Apache Hadoop distribution . Does any of the MapR products include the While I know there's no definition of such a thing, as far as I know self-claimed API compatibility is by no means the same…

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