Databases & Data

Building a Data Intensive Web App with Hadoop, Hive, & EC2

Cloudera Blog200955 points14 comments details

NoSQL Required Reading

Kas Thomas200955 points7 comments details

Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript

PostgreSQL Tips and Tricks

CouchDB naked

The rise of Python in computational science

WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model

Stranger than Fiction: The story of PostgreSQL and Online Poker

Official Google Research Blog: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Google Research Blog200952 points16 comments details

What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun

Michael Widenius200952 points10 comments details

Tonight at 4:30 AM, USA Pacific time, my phone started to ring; it was a call from a Sun employee saying that Oracle has bought Sun and he w...

Peeping into Memcached

ZFS Deduplication

Why CouchDB doesn't scale

Jonathan Ellis200950 points30 comments details

This is my attempt to clear up some misconceptions about CouchDB and point out some technical details that a lot of people seem to have over...

The Billion Dollar Gram

Information Is Beautiful200950 points29 comments details

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Avro: A Format for Big Data

Cloudera Blog200950 points2 comments details