An Efficient Multi-Tier Tablet Server Storage Architecture
LSM Trees are out, COLAs are in and Cassandra has an even better idea.
Designing the Star Schema Database
By far the best introduction on the subject.
The Pathologies of Big Data
I gotta say, Vertica really hits all these points.
Lessons learned from deploying a production database in EC2
Fantastic article on scaling MySQL (really any (No)Sql DB) on EC2.
The story of one MySQL Upgrade | MySQL Performance Blog
MySQL might be rock solid running but upgrading, replication, sharding, etc. are impossible. If any NoSQL platform had these issues it would be a non starter.
Using Scala with JDBC to connect to MySQL
@mkaz is unfortunatly right, raw JDBC is the simplest way to with scala 2.8
I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba
I’m glad to see that the SQL camp is finally starting to hit back against NoSql.
Dennis Forbes on Software and Technology - Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie
A solid article throwing some basic pragmatism into the whole Sql vs NoSql debate.
What's new in iBATIS 3
Of all the ORMs I think iBATIS is the only one I’m interested in. Spring 3.1 is slated to support iBATIS 3, it might be time to check it out when that is released.
