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Amazon Web Services has launched DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides extremely fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Amazon has had a cloud database service with SimpleDB for some time, but DynamoDB focuses on fast, predictable performance and automatically manages the spreading of data and workload over a sufficient number of servers.
DataStax, a commercial distributor of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is reflecting on the past year. The company reached several milestones in the past year, as did Cassandra, and there are high hopes surrounding both as we enter 2012.
Cassandra in the NoSQL movement has not enjoyed the hype of let’s say…Mongo, but I view that as a good thing. It’s a great entrepreneurs’ story how co-founders Matt Pfeil and Jonathan Ellis, while at Rackspace, had a mind meld to create DataStax, and the vision to wrap support and services around Cassandra so mere mortals could reap the benefits. My favorite Cassandra users: Adobe, Netflix, Spotify, and Soundcloud!
Sylvain Lebresne will give a talk about “The Apache Cassandra storage engine” at FOSDEM 2012.
During the recent round of NoSQL Road Show events it has emerged that this description could be taken to suggest that NewSQL products are able to provide consistency, availability and partition tolerance and therefore contravene the common understanding of CAP Theorem that “a distributed system can satisfy any two of these guarantees at the same time, but not all three.”
Well, here we are, another year almost done for. Time to look back and take stock of the year that was. You know what? It turns out that 2011 was a banner year for open source projects. So much so, that picking the 10 most important was pretty difficult.
Netflix has announced that it has opened a “portal” for its open source projects… The “portal” is a github page for the Netflix projects. Other projects that the company plans to add to the “portal” include Astyanax (an Apache Cassandra client), Priam (Cassandra configuration and token management and backup/recovery co-process) and CassJMeter (Cassandra tests as a JMeter plugin).
Fastforward to last month and we see the stability issues fade away as Apache Cassandra reaches a major milestone in version 1.0. And just this week there’s been benchmarks done by Netflix which vindicate their 6-month migration to Cassandra.
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