Brandon Savage has a new post that looks at planning databases for your applications, specifically in the context of picking the right data types for what you're going to store.
When I started writing this blog post, I had titled it "Tips for Designing Databases" and I planned to talk about various database design techniques.
However, as I did more and more research, it dawned on me that one of the most crucial, and most overlooked, components...
Solid State Drives in Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Flashed-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a big issue for enterprise storage users; a number of customers I work with are planning for this new "tier 0"...
Friendly: Easy Schemaless “NoSQL” Data Storage...
Friendly is a new Ruby ORM (a la ActiveRecord) that lets you easily use NoSQL ideas on regular database engines, such as MySQL. Developer James Golick has written a blog post introducing...
Cloudera Releases Desktop UI for Hadoop
Cloudera, a commercial distributor of the Hadoop data storage and processing platform, released a unified graphical user interface for applications based on the open-source framework for...
Kingston 4 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Card (SD6/4 GB)
Kingston SD-HC cards offer larger-volume data storage and optimized recording performance with support for FAT 32 file formats. In addition, Kingston's SDHC cards use a class 6 rating that...
Kingston 4GB SDHC Class 4 Flash Card (SD4/4GB)
Kingston Technology's Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) memory cards are fully compliant with the Secure Digital Association 2.00 specification. They are a new performance class of SD...
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