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A New Frontier in Databases with AllegroCache
An article about the future of data storage and interaction between database management systems and programming languages.
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Project Cassandra: Facebook's Open Source Alternative to Google BigTable
About a week ago, the Facebook Data team quietly released the Cassandra Project on Google Code. The Cassandra project has been described as a cross between ...
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Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
Update, 2017-09-25 Hi! This essay is undergoing a long-overdue rewrite. In the meantime, consider my 2015 follow-up essay, Obergefell v. Hodges: the database engineering perspective....
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Top 10 Reasons to Avoid the SimpleDB Hype
The personal home page of Ryan Park of San Francisco, California, USA.
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Basic MySQL Performance Tuning Practices that Everyone Should Know About
In this post I'll cover a lecture on MySQL performance tuning. This lecture is given by Jay Pipes. Jay works at MySQL and has written a book on MySQL. It's called Pro MySQL and it covers intermediate and advanced features of the database. He also has an interesting blog, which I am long subscribed to - Jay Pipes blog.