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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern DBs and the NoSQL Movement
- danskil 14y agoJust got this book, and i'm loving it.
- mhd 14y agoIs "movement" really the right word here?
- dkhenry 14y agoI would have loved to see Cassandra and an entrant from an ACID compliant Memory Only DB like VoltDB. Still it looks like a good read. Anyone selling a used copy ?
- jimbojw 14y agoWe considered Cassandra early on. After much discussion, Eric and I decided against including it. Cassandra implements a BigTable-esque API and also takes a page from the Amazon Dynamo playbook to implement ring-based sharding. We felt that HBase and Riak more faithfully represented BigTable and Dynamo respectively. Writing about these two databases gave us a better chance to discuss the columnar and key/value genres independently. It was definitely a tough choice though.
- forgotAgain 14y agoTo me this seems to be a commercial posting. Is that allowed?
- danso 14y agoUh...aren't a lot of "Show HN: [my app/startup]" commercial postings in nature?
- georgemcbay 14y agoYes. But I have to admit I was disappointed to see this was just a marketing link for a book considering how much the title sounds like an article or tech blog post. I think the title could be a lot more clear that this is just a link to info about a commercial book and not a link to traditional web content, though in this case the title is so long I'm not sure how they could have conveyed that well.
- gcb 14y agoYep. looks like Spam to me. Smells like Spam to me. Flagged as Spam.
- eredmond 14y agoNot spam. Neither Jim nor I (Eric) posted this... I'm not sure who did. You need to check your sniffer ;)
- gcb 14y agoI call spam anything that is in my news feed but ask me to buy something instead of informing me. Sorry if you took it personally. Ironically, i wouldn't call spam if done by you (assume the authors) with the "show hn" shenanigans...
- tinco 14y agoWhy are you asking 'is this allowed'? This is a news website, not a board game.. You should be asking 'is this interesting to me or to other HN readers'. And in my opinion the answer is yes.
- dlapiduz 14y agoThe video alone looks cool enough to share...
- el33tel33t 14y agoCassandra is missing. So is HyperDex, which offers consistency and performance not found in others.
- hermanhermitage 14y agoThanks for the heads up on HyperDex - I'd missed that. Do you know of a good web reference that tracks new datastore implementations? I've got the book - its good heads up for someone like me who is mainly working in non DB areas and needs a quick summary of alternatives. I would have liked more on SQL and pre web era data stores. VoltDB would have been nice. Redis is more interesting to me than most of the NoSQL solutions - as it offers me something different than I can coax an SQL DB into delivering.
- alphadogg 14y agoCan anyone tell me if this book confounds the Relational Model and the predominant RDBMSes, ex: confuses things like tables and relations, like most devs are wont to do? If so, I'm pretty much going to stay away from this book.