Tag Archives: Distributed computing

NOSQL Summer in Graz Kick-Off Meeting

21 Jul

Today was the kick-off  meeting of NOSQL Summer here in Graz, Austria. A NOSQL Summer is a network of local reading groups, that will decipher & discuss NOSQL-related articles, from late June to early September 2010. Each group sets its own meeting pace (usually once a week or once every two weeks) and select which papers [...]

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)