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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 + [...]

In the following video Dmitriy Ryaboy, a Twitter Analytics Engineer and a former Cloudera Intern, explains how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig. Enjoy the video and have a good weekend! Related articles How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data (news.cnet.com) How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data (news.cnet.com) Hadoop There it Was–Hadoop Summit [...]

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 [...]

I have just found this very interesting video dealing with the implementation of HBase and Pig in combination with Hadoop at Twitter: Related articles by Zemanta HBase Digest, March 2010 (sematext.com) Cassandra+Hadoop (slideshare.net) Hadoop, Hbase and Hive- Bay area Hadoop User Group (slideshare.net)

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)