Bloggers Meetup @ Oracle OpenWorld 2010
Planet MySQL   Alex Gorbachev   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 1.5
It’s that time of the year again — Oracle OpenWorld time — and it’s my pleasure to announce our regular Oracle bloggers meetup again this year. We all know that Oracle community has grown this ...
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Surviving Restart
Planet CouchDB   eee.c   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
‹prev | My Chain | next› Today, I would like to see if I can restart my (fab) game without the usual assorted problems. Before the switch to a permanent store (naturally CouchDB) this would have...
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More Callbacks with node-couchdb
Planet CouchDB   eee.c   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 1.0
‹prev | My Chain | next› Yesterday, I was able to get player updates in my (fab) game stored in a CouchDB backend thanks to node-couchdb. Today, I hope to move the entire store over to CouchDB....
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Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool
MySQL Performance Blog   Baron Schwartz   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
Ignacio Nin and I (mostly Ignacio) have worked together to create tcprstat[1], a new tool that times TCP requests and prints out statistics on them. The output looks somewhat like vmstat or iostat,...
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Pomegranate - Storing Billions and Billions of Tiny Little Files
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Pomegranate is a novel distributed file system built over distributed tabular storage that acts an awful lot like a NoSQL system. It's targeted at increasing the performance of tiny object access in...
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OpenStack - The Answer to: How do We Compete with Amazon?
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group had a meetup Wednesday on OpenStack, whose tag line is the open source, open standards cloud. I was shocked at the large turnout. 287 people registered and...
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The Limitations of SPARQL
Planet CouchDB   Ricky Ho   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Recently, I have been looking at RDF model and try to compare that with the property graph model that I mention in a previous post. I also look at the SPARQL query model. While I think it is a very...
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MySQL 5.1 Plugins Development Published
Planet MySQL   Andrew Hutchings   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
MySQL 5.1 has a great feature which not many people know about, that is the fact it can be extended via. the use of plugins.  Unfortunately how you go about this is not incredibly well documented....
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MariaDB 5.1.49 for Mac OS X
Planet MySQL   Hakan Kucukyilmaz   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Stuttgart: a rainy day, waiting for Iftar. Good time for good news! During my vacation I read about a request for a MariaDB package for Mac OS X  and did some research. Back from vacation I have an...
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Amazon EC2 Price Reduction
Amazon Web Services Blog   AWS Evangelist   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
We're always looking for ways to make AWS an even better value for our customers. If you've been reading this blog for an extended period of time you know that we reduce prices on our services from...
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Scale-out vs Scale-up
High Scalability   Nati Shalom   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
In this post I'll cover the difference between multi-core concurrency that is often referred to as Scale-Up and distributed computing that is often referred to as Scale-Out mode.  more.. Source:...
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Paper: The Case for Determinism in Database Systems
High Scalability   Todd Hoff   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
Can you have your ACID cake and eat your distributed database too? Yes explains Daniel Abadi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, in an epic post, The problems with ACID, and...
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FindTheBest - AWS in Action
Amazon Web Services Blog   AWS Evangelist   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Mike from Cirrhus9 sent me some information about their recent implementation of FindTheBest. With his permission, I am sharing some of the details with you so that you can get a better idea of how a...
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New CloudFront Feature: Invalidation
Amazon Web Services Blog   AWS Evangelist   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Under normal conditions, an Amazon S3 object in a bucket that is part of a CloudFront distribution can be cached at a CloudFront edge location per the object's TTL (Time to Live). In many situations...
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Kevin Closson
Kevin Closson's Oracle   kevinclosson   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
I’d like to direct readers to an important blog update/correction. In my post entitled An Intel Xeon 5400 System That Outperforms An Intel 5500 (Nehalem EP) System? Believe It…Or Know It I...
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Appian Anywhere: Authority to Operate
Amazon Web Services Blog   AWS Evangelist   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
After a rigorous and comprehensive assessment, Appian has received an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S .Department of Education for the Department's Appian Anywhere BPM (Business Process...
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dbbenchmark.com – now supporting MySQL on OSX 10.6
Planet MySQL   Matt Reid   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Just a quick note to let everyone know that our new benchmarking script now supports OSX 10.6 on Intel hardware. That means you can run one simple command and get all of the sequential and random...
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CouchDB: The Definitive Guide — Redesigned Website, Up To Date Conten
Planet CouchDB   Jan Lehnardt   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Last week we (Noah, Chris and Jan, with great design help from Kristina Schneider) released our latest work on CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. The latest update includes: Updated and edited content as...
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What’s new in CouchDB 1.0 — Part 4: Security’n stuff: Users, Auth
Planet CouchDB   Jan Lehnardt   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Welcome to Part 4 on my little mini-series on new features in CouchDB 0.11.01.0. Do not miss parts one, two and three. Today, I get a little help from Rebecca. She’s writing a CouchApp, an...
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Rediscovering the roots.
Planet MySQL   Darren Cassar   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Do you ever stop and think? It happens to me all the time, random subjects kick in and I end up searching (aka googling) and today I wondered … Why is MySQLs logo a dolphin? Shame on me it took me...
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