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The Evolution of Google File System (GFS)

Firstly it was the Google File System described in this 2003 paper (PDF): We have designed and implemented the Google File System, a scalable…
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An Introduction to MongoDB

Good slidedeck from Chris Westin (10gen engineer)-I particularly liked the slides summarizing some of the limitations in the relational databases: …
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What's Next for IBM Watson?

What's Next for IBM Watson?: If you are waiting for a financial services version of the powerful artificial intelligence system that won a game of…
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2 Ways to Tackle Really Big Data

2 Ways to Tackle Really Big Data: So there you have the two approaches to handling machine-generated-data. If you have vast archives, EMC, IBM…
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Performance schema, overhead tuning

Performance schema performance tuning One of the most important question users ask before deciding to use the performance schema is: what is the…
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 24, 2011

Submitted for your scaling pleasure: Achievements: Watson uses 10,000's of watts, the computer between the ears uses 20. With only 200 million…
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Log Buffer #226, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

In your hands, the new edition of Log Buffer is smiling and it wants your undivided attention, because it is full of selected simmering yet cool…
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Some MySQL projects I think are cool - HandlerSocket Plugin

The HandlerSocket project is described in Yoshinori Matsunobu's blog entry under the title 'Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750,000…
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Opening: HBase and Lucene / Solr / Elastic Search Developer

We are once again looking for smart people. This time we are looking to hire a person who likes working with HBase and Lucene (or Solr or Elastic…
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Moving Away From Amazon’s EMR Service to an In-House Hadoop Cluster

Moving Away From Amazon's EMR Service to an In-House Hadoop Cluster: Many of our systems use Amazon's S3 as a backup repository for log data. Our…
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XtraBackup Manager - Backup Strategies and Materialized Snapshots

Hi Folks, I have now committed the changes for the new Backup Strategies feature to trunk! In addition, I'm pretty much finished on implementing the…
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Full Text Search: What to Use?

Full Text Search: What to Use?: A problem everyone using a NoSQL databases faces (nb: actually I think this applies to most storage engines that…
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SQL access to CouchDB views : Easy Reporting

Following up on my previous blog about enabling SQL Access to CouchDB Views I thought I'd share what I think the single, biggest advantage is: The…
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Replication and EC2 gotcha

Tonight a client restarted some instances on EC2 and they got different IPs. This broke replication because the slaves were trying to connect to…
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Era of Galera - Release 0.8.0 Published

MySQL/Galera 0.8.0 starts a new major release series of Galera clustering. It features significant improvements in reliability, usability and…
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Upcoming webinar on Hibernate and Connector/J

On July 10th at 9 AM PST I will be giving a webinar about performance implications for Hibernate and Connector/J. If you cannot attend at this time,…
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Hibernate OGM: Why, What, How

Hibernate OGM: Why, What, How: Very good post by Emmanuel Bernard on the Hibernate blog explaining why Hibernate OGM was created, how it works, and…
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It's the Fraking IOPS - 1 SSD is 44,000 IOPS, Hard Drive is 180

Planning your next buildout and thinking SSDs are still far in the future? Still too expensive, too low density. Hard disks are cheap, familiar,…
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Tale of a bug

20110622 mariadb,mysql,debugging,programming,freesoftware This is a tale of the bug lp:798213. The bug report has the initial report, and a summary…
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MySQL privileges and replication

This is a response on MySQL security: inconsistencies and Less known facts about MySQL user grants. As far as I know the privilege to grant PROXY…
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