In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look intoNoSQL. They developed the YCSB framework to assess the performance of new tools and find the best cases for their use. […]
Daily Archives: February 8, 2013
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Whenever analysts or journalists assemble lists of the top trends for this year, “big data” is almost certain to be on the list. While the catchphrase is fairly new, in one sense, big data isn’t really a new concept. Computers have always worked with large and growing sets of data, […]
1. Quick Comparison While SQL databases are insanely useful tools, their monopoly in the last decades is coming to an end. And it’s just time: I can’t even count the things that were forced into relational databases, but never really fitted them. (That being said, relational databases will always be […]