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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 8 posts.
Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores
Please Note: this was written January 2009 - see the comments for updates and additional information. A lot has changed since I wrote this.
Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump
We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license . All those great Stack Overflow questions, answers, and comments, so generously contributed by all of you , are licensed under cc-wiki (also known as cc-by-sa ):
Large-scale graph computing at Google
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Systems Infrastructure TeamIf you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, soc...
On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store
It took Ruby some time to go from an infant research project by Matz to a language we've all come to know so well. Now, another Japanese developer ( Mikio Hirabayashi ) has all the potential to repeat this cycle with his new database project: Tokyo Cabinet . Developed and sponsored by Mixi Inc . (Japanese Facebook)…