Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0?

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/22/1732221/is-it-time-for-nosql-20

by zhiping • 14 years ago

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opendomain• 14 years ago

I completely agree that it is time for NoSQL 2.0 - there are more than 100 different NoSQL datatastores and usually developers choose based on MARKETING - there are no good scientific comparisons on which one is better. This is why I founded the NoSQL alliance at http://NoSQL.org - to standardize and offer unbiased advice of which database to use and why. This is an open source project - please contact me if you would like to participate

Maro• 14 years ago

A real Brogrammer 2.0 uses a NoSQL 2.0 database!

coenhyde• 14 years ago

I've got no opinion on HyperDex but I could barely read that slashdot summary. Just marketing goobly gook.

bitdiddle• 14 years ago

yes, and the title of the post is a bit misleading. HyperDex seems to be a serious effort and worth a close look.

rescrv4• 14 years ago

The homepage (http://hyperdex.org/) has more information, although the best source for technical information would be the technical report we've put together (http://hyperdex.org/papers/hyperdex.pdf)

Edit: Link to paper and not out-dated slides.

dasil003• 14 years ago

> they all provide a similar API that achieves high performance and scalability by limiting applications to simple operations like GET and PUT

Seriously? Sounds like the PR firm didn't actually take a look at these other DBs.

antirez• 14 years ago

Redis does not just provide the "simple operations like GET and PUT". The guy who wrote the article is a PR guy for HyperDex IMHO.

willvarfar• 14 years ago

It doesn't provide much scalability either?

Redis is in a class of its own; there are lots of niche technologies.

tpsreport3• 14 years ago

Redis has a rich API but it doesn't scale and it doesn't guarantee consistency.

alexro4• 14 years ago

In every serious development the db architecture gets selected on the use cases specific to the business, so without describing which use cases HyperDex addresses there will be no real interest for it, name it 2.0 or "on steroids".

rescrv4• 14 years ago

HyperDex provides strongly consistent GET/PUT operations and fast searches over data. It uses a new object placement technique to facilitate these searches, and as a result, a search may contact a very small subset of hosts in the system.

alecco• 14 years ago

There's always a trade-off somewhere. Does it take 3x more RAM/storage? Does it make record insertion extremely slow?

tpsreport3• 14 years ago

It's a consistent, scalable, high-performance key-value store. If you need the use cases spelled out for you, you should not be using it or anything else related to the web.

alexro4• 14 years ago

Not even HTML/CSS?

drats• 14 years ago

People should stop complaining about Slashdot and marketing and look at the Hyperdex paper, it's quite interesting (http://hyperdex.org/papers/hyperdex.pdf). It also has quite an elegant python API (http://hyperdex.org/tutorial/).

rescrv4• 14 years ago

Thanks for pointing out the paper. If the paper doesn't cover a question, I'm happy to answer (primary dev/paper author here) it via email, or here on HN.

Yarnage• 14 years ago

Can we stop calling it NoSQL? Cassandra has a SQL now and there are other "NoSQL" databases adopting this and the fact that they didn't use SQL wasn't a huge point with how they worked anyway.

Instead of NoSQL 2.0 how about Key Value stores or Document Stores or something else?

Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0?

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