Tag Archives: Database

NoSQL Databases: Why, what and when – An Overview on NoSQL Datastores

6 Mar

For everybody interested in NoSQL datastores the following presentation by Lorenzo Alberton is worth reading. It gives a good overview of the currently used technologies in the area of NoSQL and discusses the ground filling basics every NoSQL enthusiast should know. NoSQL Databases: Why, what and when (via quipo)   Related Articles NoSQL: Node.js + [...]

Twitter’s use of Cassandra, Hadoop, Pig and HBase for highly distributed Data Processing and Analysis

6 May

Kevin Weil, Analytics Lead at Twitter recently gave a presentation on Twitter’s use of Cassandra, Pig and HBase. Specially interesting is how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig in their data analysis process. (via @kevinweil) Another great presentation from Tobias Ivarsson gives an overview on NoSQL: (via @thobe)

[video] – Rethink the Data Warehouse with Hadoop and Hive

12 Nov

Here is a great video explaining how Facebook uses Hadoop and Hive to build Data Warehouses and analyse their huge ammount of data. Every day Facebook gets around 4TB+ of compressed data, which is amazing and also difficult to be analysed. (via Cloudera)