Articles having tag: POWERED BY NOSQL

Cassandra at Workware Systems: Data Model FTW

Cassandra at Workware Systems: Data Model FTW:One of the stories in which the deciding factor for using Cassandra was primarily the data model and not its scalability characteristics: We started working with relational databases, and began building things...

The Story of Scaling Draw Something From an Amazon S3 Custom Key-Value Service to Using Couchbase

By Alex Popescu

The Story of Scaling Draw Something From an Amazon S3 Custom Key-Value Service to Using Couchbase:This is the story of scaling Draw Something told by its CTO Jason Pearlman. The early days, a custom key-value service built on top of Amazon S3: The original...

Polyglot Persistence Architecture at Socialize: Splunk for MapReduce & Big Data Analysis

By Alex Popescu

Very informative post onSocialize blogabout their data flow and the data analysis stack used to processing it. The post is missing the architecture diagram, so I took the time to reconstruct it based on the details in the article: Click to view full sizediagram...

LinkedIn NoSQL Paper: Serving Large-Scale Batch Computed Data With Project Voldemort

By Alex Popescu

The abstract of a new paper from a team at LinkedIn (Roshan Sumbaly, Jay Kreps, Lei Gao, Alex Feinberg, Chinmay Soman, Sam Shah): Current serving systems lack the ability to bulk load massive immutable data sets without affecting serving performance. The...

Cassandra as the Central Nervous System of Your Distributed Systems with Joe Stein - Powered by NoSQL

By Alex Popescu

In the 4th week of the DataStax'sCassandra NYC 2011 video series, we have Joe Stein from Medialets talking about the architecture Before diving into the video here are some interesting data points: Medialets serves rich media adsthey handle 3-4TB of...

Cassandra at Clearspring with Chris Burroughs - Powered by NoSQL

By Alex Popescu

For today's Powered by Cassandra video from theCassandra NYC 2011 event organized by DataStax, I chose Chris Burroughs's presentation about Clearspring's usage of Cassandra. Just in case you wonder what Clearspring is doing, the sharing buttons...

Cassandra 101 for System Administrators with Nathan Milford - Powered by NoSQL

By Alex Popescu

While today was supposed to be a new educational video from theCassandra NYC 2011 video series, I thought that learning from the lessons of operating Cassandra at Outbrain to serve over 30 billion impressions monthly will be quite educational. more Before...

Polyglot persistence at Pinterest: Redis, Membase, MySQL

By Alex Popescu

I've created the diagram above based onthis very brief answer on Quora: We use python + heavily-modified Django at the application layer. \xa0Tornado and (very selectively) node.js as web-servers. \xa0Memcached and membase / redis for object- and...

Scaling Video Analytics with Cassandra by Ilya Maykov - Powered by NoSQL

By Alex Popescu

To keep with last week's model\u2014aneducational video about Cassandra, followed by aCassandra case study\u2014today's video in theCassandra NYC 2011 video seriesfrom DataStax, is Ilya Maykov describe how Cassandra is used at Ooyala for computing...

The Design of 99designs - A Clean Tens of Millions Pageviews Architecture

By Alex Popescu

By pure coincidence, General Chicken justpublished on High Scalabilitya bullet point summary of the99designs architecture I've linked and commented on earlier. Original title and link:The Design of 99designs - A Clean Tens of Millions Pageviews\xa0Architecture(NoSQL...