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LINKS, ARTICLES, BLOGS: Also try the Google Timeline with the query key NoSQL for up to date information. » Please send me a link if you want to keep it safe for you and the world. Personal note: As real fundamental articles are getting less frequent, I will put more energy into the blog (e.g. covering new systems). 2011 UnQL  Richard Hipp, Damien Katz »  (see some example queries) "35+ Use Cases For Choosing Your Next NoSQL Database",High Scalability Blog, »  "101 Questions To Ask When Considering A NoSQL Database", High Scalability Blog, »   "Measuring the scalability of SQL and NoSQL systems", Adam Silberstein and Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, » (via odbms.org) "The NoSQL Ecosystem", Adam Marcus (from tehe aosabook.org), » "Lies, Damn Lies and NoSQL", the Basho Blog, » "Eventual Path Consistency", K.S. Bhaskar, 2nd Part »  (First part 5 items below) * "A Co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", Erik Meijer, » * "Towards a mathematical model for noSQL" (and a peaceful coexistance), Erik Meijer, Slides » Article » "NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond" 451 Group via InfoQ, »  "NoSQL Speed Bumps", Ken North / Dr. Dobbs, » "Eventual State Consistency vs. Eventual Path Consistency", Bhaskar, » "NoSQL at NETFLIX", Yury Izrailevsky » "NoSQL at Twitter", Ryan Kind (seen by MyNoSQL) » "NoSQL in the Sauna", by Prospectus IT Recrutement, » "NoSQL Tapes" by Tim Anglade, »  James Hamilton on "Google Megastore" paper. "The Engine behind GAE", » Oct & Nov & Dec 2010 "Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase comparison", Kristof Kovacs, » "BI at large scale", Rickey Ho, » "Document-oriented DBMS without joins", dbms2, » "What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?", highscalability blog, » Avro, the Thrift successor? Why? » » "Scalable Design Patterns", » and "Map/Reduce and Stream Processing", » by Rickey Ho "Some NoSQL Myths", Tony Bain, » "NoSQL Solution: Evaluation Guide [CHART]" Jun Xu  (Perfectmarket), » Spring Announces Support for NoSQL, » "Databases are hammers; MapReduce is a screwdriver", Mark C. Chu-Carroll", » (2008 old but valid) "BigTable Model with Cassandra and HBase", Rickey Ho, » (older: "NoSQL Patterns »)   "NoSQL Basics, Benefits and Best-Fit Scenarios", Curt Monash, » "PAX Analytica? Row- and column-stores begin to come together", dbms2, » Sept & August 2010 "The SMAQ stack for big data", Edd Dumbill , » "A Gentle Introduction to CouchDB for Relational Practitioners", Barun Schwartz, » "Normalization is from the devil", Ayende Rahien, » "10 things you should know about NoSQL databases" Jody Gilbert, » (found via myNoSQL) "GameChange and MongoDB: a case strudy in MySQL conversion", aurum blog, » Rickey Ho has written again some great blog articles about MR (1 & 2 & 3), SparQL and more  "The naming of the Foo", DBMS2 Blog, » "Menbase, the database powering Farmville", Audrey Watters, » "Designing Web Apps for Scalability", Max Indelicato, » "Using Object Database db4o as Storage Provider in Voldemort", German Viscuso, » "Pairing NoSQL and Relational Data Storage: MySQL with MongoDB", Max Indelicato, » July & August 2010 "Three Papers on Load Balancing", Alex Popescu, » "Just say NoSQL", Alex Handy, » "Google Pregel Graph Processing", Rickey Ho, » "What NoSQL Store Should I Use? The Right Tool for Your Use Case", Mitchell Pronsc, » "NoSQL, Heroku, and You / Why NoSQL Matters", by Adam, » (Daas, Database-as-a-Service)  "Riak and Cassandra and HBase, oh my!", deinspanjer, » "A Quick Introduction to the Cassandra Data Model", Maxim Grinev, » "Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design", Mathias Meyer, » "VoltDB decapitates sic SQL urban myths and delivers Internet Scale OLTP in the process", Hi Scalability Blog, » "Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world's largest site", Pingdom, » May & June 2010 » "Constructions from Dots and Lines", Marko A. Rodriguez, Peter Neubauer, » "A phase shift for the ORM", Debasish Ghosh, »  "Distributed Storage System Classification", Jeff Darcy, » », (via Alex Popescu) "Quest unveils NoSQL database management tool", Computerworld, » NoSQL Talk at OGF29, Krishna Sankar, » "The NoSQL Alternative", Ken North on Dr. Dobbs, » "Graph Databases, NoSQL and Neo4j", Peter Neubauer, » "The H Speed guide to NoSQL", Dj Walker Morgan, » "That No SQL Thing: Why do I need that again?", Ayende Rahien, » "NoSQL Graph Database Comparison", DZone, » "The end of relational databases?", Febryadi.com, » "Read your writes (WRY), aka immediate, consistency", dbms2, » April 2010 » "Intro to Hadoop, HBase and NoSQL", Nick Dimidiuk (slides), » "NoSQL at Twitter", Kevin Well (156 pages!), »   "Design Patterns for Distributed Non-Relatinoal Databases", Todd Lipcon, »  "MongoDB vs. SQL Server 2008 Performance Showdown", Michael Kennedy, »  "A Few Words About 'NoSQL' and Other Unstructured Databases", Matt Sarrel, » "On The Facebook Open Graph and Graph Databases", Emil Efrem, » Great nosql:eu coverage (thanks myNoSQL), firstDay, secondDay "NoSQL in the Enterprise", Sourav Mazumder / InfoQ, »  "NoSQL @ Qbranch", (slides by) Marten Gustafson, » "NoSQL for Dummies", (slides by) Tobias Ivarsson, » "Yes, Virginia, MarkLogic is a NoSQL System", Dave Kellog, » "NoSQL is about", Jan Lennart, » "NoSQL Databases", Marin Dimitrov, » "MapReduce in Simple Terms",esaliya , » "A Brief History of NoSQL", Knut Haugen, » "Why NoSQL Will Not Die", Stephan Schmidt, » (responso to article 2 below) "NoSQL Workshop - Featuring Riak and CouchDB", vermonster workshop", » March 2010 » "Can't wait for NoSQL to Die", Ted Dziuba, » some response: » NoSQL - Smackdown, mp3 Episodes, (live discussions) »  "HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved", Dominic Williams, » "NoSQL Database Movement Gains Ground as Alternative", Brian Prince / Eweek, » "12 Reasons To Be Learning Graph Theory", Andrés Osinski, » All recordings from NoSQL Live Boston, » "Toward a NoSQL Taxonomy", DBMS2, » "Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems", Nathan Hurst, » "NoSQL: Staying for the feature presentation", Any Oram, (Conf Report), » "Stuck with NoSQL?", Kent Beck, » "Building Scalable Databases: Are Relational Databases Compatible with Large Scale Websites?", Dare Obasanjo, » "Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra", John Quinn, » "Open Source NoSQL Databases Ramp Up", Sean Michael Kerner, » "RDF meets NoSQL", Sandro Hawke, » "NoSQL Databases", harrikauhanen, » "SCALE 8x: Relational vs. non-relational", Jake Edge, »  "High scalability: SQL and computational complexity", slava / redthinkDB, » "InfoWorld review: Databases primed for social networks", Peter Wayner, » Reddit.com Discussion, » "Will NoSQL Databases Live up to Their Promise", Neill Levitt on IEEE Computing, » "I love eventual consistency but...", James Hamilton, » "Brewer's CAP Conjecture is False", NoSql Google Group Discussion / Jim Starkey, » "Design Patterns for Distributed Non-Relational Databases", Tood Lipcon, »   "Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie", Dennis Forbes, » Februar 2010  "The Database Tea Party: The NoSQL Movement", Dave Kellog, » » "PyCon 2010 talk:What every developer should know about database", Jonathan Ellis/ Video, »  "Open Source NoSQL Databases", mitchp on DZone, » "The NoSQL movement is growing, but what is it?", Computerworld UK, Mike Gueltieri, » "High Performance Scalable Datastore Comparison", Rick Cattell, » "SourceForge.net chooses Python, TurboGears and MongoDB to Redesign their Web Site", BitSource.com, » "NoSQL And Elastic Caching Platforms Are Kissing Cousins", Mike Gualtieri, » "Bend or Break. Choosing a Datastore for Web Applications", Nick August, » "Databases primed for social networks", Peter Wayner, Info World, » "NoSQL And You - Thoughts On Finding Right Partner In Chrime", Mathias Meyer, » "25+ Alternative & Open Source Databases Engines", WebResources Depot, » "Is NoSQL Finally Going Mainstream?", elegantcode.com blogging community, » "Cloud MapReduce Tricks", Rickey Ho, » "Seeking a database that doesn't suck", mee.nu, »  (a big star for the best humor ;-) "Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers", atbrox, »  "Graph Databases and the Future of Large-Scale Knowledge Management", Marko A. Rodriguetz, » "Comparison of the Grid/Cloud Computing Frameworks (Hadoop, GridGain, Hazelcast, DAC) - Part I", Krystian Lider, » "NoSQL in the real world", Dave Rosenberg, » "NoSQL but so much more", Alexandre Morgaut, » "NoSQL GraphDB", Ricky Ho, » "Wrap your SQL head around Riak's Map-Reduce", seancribbs.com, » "The end of SQL and relational databases", David Intersimone, » "Why NoSQL Now?", Kent Beck, » "Comparing MongoDB and Redis", masonoise, part1, part2 Januar 2010 "Google: Cluster Computing and mapReduce", Google Code University, » "Looking to the future with Cassandra", digg, » "Why NoSQL is Here to Stay ...", 10gen, » "MapReduce and Parallel DBMSs: Friends or Foes?", ACM Article, Stonebraker et.al, » "Fighting Hype with Hype - RDBMS FTW!!!1!", Paul Jospeh Davies, » "NoSQL: The dawn of Polyglot Persistence", Stephan Schmidt, » "NoSQL Alternatives: An Interview with Gigaspaces CTO Nati Shalom", Nati Shalom, » "Integrating Hadoop Data with Oracle Parallel Processing", oracle blogs data warehouse insider, » "NoSQL Databases - Part 1 - Landscape", Vineet Gupta, »  "Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers", atbrox, » "Die ina Fire", Eric Florenzano, » "Oracle - Simple DB: A hybrid solution", Siddharth Anand, 1»  2»  3»  4» "Tokyo Cabinet's Key-Value Database Types", James Edward Gray", » "Notes on distributed Programming and CAP", paulogaspar, » "Hadoop and Parallel Dataflow Programming", Gordon S. Linoff, » "Characterizing Enterprise Systems using the CAP theorem", Tyalor Gautier, » "NoSQL Databases - Part 1 - Landscape", Vineet Gupta, » December 2009 » "One year of Redis" (nice confessions of an open source developer), antirez, » "A case for hybrid SQL - NoSQL stack", Debasish Ghosh, » Some speed comparisons for a non relational use case, Mark Rendle, » "Distributed Programming and Data Consistency", Paolo Gaspar, » "Hadoop and MapReduce: Method for Reading and Writing General Record Structures", data-miners blog, » "Running a CouchDB Cluster on Amazon EC2", Stuart Browne?,  » "Ruby and HBase for Beginners", Olexiy Prokhorenko,  » "Drop ACID and Think about Data", High Scalability Blog, » "Getting Started with MongoMapper and Rails",John Nunemaker,  » "Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks", John Nunemaker, » "CouchDB on Rails", aimee, » "Top 5 reasons why you shoudld adopt Cloud Map/Reduce", Huan Liu, » "7 Tips for Improving MapReduce Performance", Cloudera, » "Put the Database in Memory", Greg Linden, » "The new Dimension of NoSQL Scalabilioty: Complexity", Alex Popescu, » "Database firms embrace Google MapReduce", Eric Lai, » "Hands on Review on the Dynamo Paper", Will Larson, » "HBase Architecture 101 - Storage", Lars George, » "How To Make Life Suck Less!", Bradford Stephens (slides), » "A New Generation of Search Tools", metajack.im, » "Musings on NoSQL", Fred Beringer, »  (good overview) "The Commen Principles Behing the NOSQL Alternatives", Nati Shalom, »  "Is Cassandra winning the NoSQL race?"., Tony Bain, » "MongoDB (is) For Rubyists - Boston Ruby", hwawt / kyle 10gen, » "CouchDB naked", Harish Mallipeddi, » "Redis Benchmarking on Amazon EC2, Flexiscale, and Slicehost", Adam Charnock, » "10 Ways To Complement the Enterprise RDBMS Using Hadoop", Dion Hincliffe, » CouchDB raises 2M !, » "Hadoop, Pig and Twitter", Kevin Weil, » "Redis benchmark on FusionIO", Ryan Lowe, » "Hadoop at Yahoo!", Eric Baldeschwieler, » »  "High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook", Amin Vahdat, » Twitter is working on using Cassandra?, » Riak launches EnterpriseDS, PR Newswire, » "NoSQL Required Reading", Kas Thomas, »  "CouchDB compaction - big impacts", Enda Farrell,  » "NoSQL and the future of cloud databases", Dave Rosenberg, »   "Future of RDBMS is RAM Clouds & SSD", igvita.com, » "NoSQL Week in Review", Alexander Popescu, » "Readings in Distributed Systems", Maron Trencseni, » "HadoopDB: An architectural hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS technologies", Yale Univ, » InfoWorld's Top 10 emerging enterprise technologies, »  (in germans computerwoche: » Using CouchDBwith Django", Will Larson, » "Non-Relational Databases and World Domination", Jason Davies (pdf), » "NoSQL - Schöne neue Welt?", Wessendorf und Warzecha (in german), » "Is Microsoft feeling the NoSQL Heat?", redmond developer network, » NoSQL Benchmark Proposal, (Google App Doc), » "sql is dead. long live sql!", Michael E. Driscoll, » OpenSQLCamp Videos, » "Are Object Databases NoSQL technologies?", R. Zicari with R. Greene » and Luis Ramos » "NoSQL: Not going Anywhere for a while", sogrady, » HBase Tutorial for Beginners, » "Query Processing for NOSQL DB", Ricky Ho, » "No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam – My Take", Nati Shalom,  » "Why Existing Databases (RAC) are so Breakable!", Nati Shalom,  » November 2009 "The confused world of NoSQL", Marto Trencseni, » "Couchdb: No SQL? No driver? No problem", Angel Pizarro, » "Key Value Stores: a practical overview", Marc Seeger, » "NoSQL Ecosystem", Jonathan Ellis, » "BRIAN AKER'S HILARIOUS NOSQL STAND UP ROUTINE", (Funny but not too serious) Video » "RDMS set the commercial data processing industry back at least ten years", Baker 1991, » (an ancient NoSQL Manifesto?) Slides, "NoSQL: Death to Relational Databases?", Ben Scofield, » "PHP: So you'd like to migrate from MySQL to CouchDB? - Part II", till » "PLANET: Massively Parallel Learning of Tree Ensembles with MapReduce", Google Paper » "Hadoop World, Protein Alignment from Paul Brown", » "Scaling to size and scaling to complexity", Emil Efrem,  » "Key Value with a relational system", John, » "Couch DB Joins", Christopher Lenz, » "Database queries the CouchDB way", Jesse Hallett, » "Rest up with CouchDB and Groovy's REST Client", IBM Developerworks, » "Non relational data stores", Igal Koshevoy, » NoSQL East : Summary of Day 1» + 2 », "NOSQL: scaling to size and scaling to complexity", Emil Efrem, » Redis Video on TechMeetup Edinburgh by Hasan Veldstra, » "A short time with MongoDB", Ivan Voras, » "Choosing a non-relational database; why we migrated from MySQL to MongoDB", Boxed Ice, » "NosQL Patterns", Rickey Ho, »  New Blog from Basho (Riak), » "SQL or not SQL & 6 Reasons why relational database will be superseded", Robin Bloor, » , » "How to combine Elastic Mapreduce / Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services", atbrox, » "Tokoy Tyrant - The Extras Part II: The Performance Wall", matt » "Tokyo Tyrant - The Extras Part I: Is it Durable", matt, » "HBase Architecture 101 - Storage", Lars George, » "A Yes for a NoSQL Taxonomy", High Scalability Blog, » "Hacking with CouchDB", Linux Magazin / Jeremy Zawodny, » "Redis Benchmarks", Adam Charnokt, » (») "Databases in the Cloud", Dr. Dobbs / Ken North, » "NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy", BJ Clark, » "The Cassandra Project", rackspace cloud blog, » "Predictions about the future of NoSQL",Aleksander Kmetec, » Noe4j talk on NoSQLEast, Emil Efrem, », "Databases sould be dynamically typed", » "CouchDB View Performance", mikeal, » "MongoDB in 3 Minutes", kype banker, » "10 mao reduce Tipps", cloudera, » "How we use MongoDB", businessinsider, » "what-i-like-about-the-nosql-crowd", » "Stonebraker and CAP", » "The "NoSQL" Discussion has Nothing to Do With SQL", Michael Stonebraker (courtesy of ACM), » "The rise and the rise of the NoSQL Movement", Julian Browne, » "One Size does not fit all", James Hamilton, » "NoSQL is a horseless carriage", (PDF), Steve Yen, » "NoSQL Business and Use Cases", (small blog entry), » "The trouble with NoSQL",stu, » "NOSQL Movement - ...", Debasish Ghosh, »   October 2009 Linuxmag Article, "NoSQL: Distributed and Scalable Non-Relational Database Systems", Jeremy Zawodny, »  "Lean & Mean Tokyo Cabinet Recipes", Ilya Grigorek, » "NoSQL East 2009 Redux", codeartisan, » "NoSQL Berlin Meetup Notes", phillip oertel, » "Stop call me NoSQL", Dhananjay Nene, »  "HBase vs. Cassandra: NoSQL Battle!", Brodford » "migrate from MySQL to CouchDB", Till Klampaeckel, » "Scalable Database Links", streamhacker, » "NoSQL Berlin" Report, Christian Pesch, » "The trouble with NoSQL", Stuart Charlton, » "End of RDBMKS Era?", InfoQ / Abel Avram, » "The Future Is Big Data in the Cloud", Ping Li, » "Massive CouchDB Braindump", Matthew Woodward, » "There is Something About Redis", Mathias Meyer, » "The new wave against RDBMS", Pawel Plaszczak,  » Cassandra & mondoDB slides from Strangeloop Conference, » [thanks puredanger] NOSQL-BERLIN Review (in German), Isabel Drost & Jan Lennart, » "CouchDB Algorithms", Chris » "MongoDB", Slides from NoSQL Berlin, Mathias Stern » "Plan and Consistent Hashing", (») » » "Code and Life", Heiner Wolf, » "Why I like Redis", Simon Willison, » "Mongo & Couch, MySQL Compare Grid", by MongoDB, » (extension of the comparison article) "Sort in Redis", chris, » "MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 1", by matt » "MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2", by matt »  "MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 3", by matt »  "When and why are database joins expensive?", onstackoverflow.com  » "NoSQL Misonceptions", Ben Scofield, » "NoSQL: Distributed and Scalable Non-Relational Database Systems", Sameh Attia, » Earlier than October 2009 09/09, "Storage Tradeoff...", Stephan Schmidt, » 09/09, "Polyglot Persistence", Ben Scotfield » 09/09, "NoSQL A Modest Proposal", Chris Wiliams, » 09/09, "Setting up the Redis Server", James Edward, » 09/09, "The dark side of NoSQL", Stephan Schmidt, » (but ORMs are bad as well?! » 08/09, "The mixed blessing of Non-Relational Databases", Ian Thomas Varley, » 06/09, "Design Patterns for Distributed Non-Relational Databases", Todd Lipcon (Cloudera), » 06/09, "SQL DBs Don't Scale", Adam Wiggins, » 06/09, "Notes from the NoSQL Meetup", Toby  Negrin  » 06/08, "Should you go beyond relational databases?", Martin Kleppmann, » 07/09, "No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam", Eric Lai, » 05/09, "Thoughts on NOSQL", Eric Florenzano » 05/09, "Drop ACID and think about Data", highscalability blog, » 03/09, "Are cloud based memory architectures the next big thing?" , High Scalability Blog, » 02/09 "Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Values Store", » 12/08, "Rent or Own: Amazon EC2 vs. Colocation Comparison for Hadoop Clusters" Bryan, » 12/08, "Eventually Consistent", Werner Vogels (Amazon) » 02/09, "Is the Relational Database Doomed?", Tony Bain, »  02/08, "Mike Stonebraker calls for the complete destruction of the old DBMS order", dbms2.com, » 01/09, "Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores", Richard Jones, Key Val Stores »