Category Archives: Databases

NoSQL

By ivanov | Published: July 18, 2010

As the term NoSQL is popping around more and more I decided to dedicate a special post where I put all interesting posts and links on the subject. It’s good to have a better overview of the existing technologies. Links: The NOSQL-Environment (Not Only SQL) NoSQL Architecture NoSQL Databases – Part 1 – Landscape NoSQL Ecosystem YeSQL: An Overview of the [...]

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Recent events and videos

By ivanov | Published: May 2, 2010

Monty’s Google Tech Talk 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference Slides and Videos Project Voldemort: Scaling Simple Storage — LinkedIn The NOSQL-Environment (Not Only SQL) In short, NOSQL databases can be categorized according to their data model into the following four categories: Key-Value-stores BigTable-implementations Document-stores Graph Databases 24.05.2010 Update: More links on NoSQL as it seems to become a really popular topic and [...]

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Tunning MySQL InnoDB performance

By ivanov | Published: June 30, 2009

Tunning MySQL InnoDB storage engine is not an easy task. It’s more like a game where you set mini goals and then try to find the right value and achieve them. Playing with the InnoDB variables is an art where you have to check your performance results each time you change a configuration parameter. [...]