By Phil Whelan on February 14, 2011
In this blog-post Bradford Stephens, Drawn To Scale’s founder, answers a series of technical, business and personal questions to give an overview of what Drawn To Scale is and where it is going. Who are the founders? What is their background, technology and business model? How were they going to manage other people’s big data? Can one tool fit the demands from a broad range of data challenges that different businesses are seeing?
Posted in Interview, NoSQL, Start-Ups | Tagged big data, bradford stephens, business intelligence, cloud-computing, data management, data processing, drawn to scale, ec2, gaming, hadoop, hbase, high scalability, iaas, media, paas, rackspace, social networks, spire, startup |
By Phil Whelan on January 24, 2011
In a few of my recent posts I have covered the ease of deploying clusters of Hadoop and Cassandra using Whirr. With Whirr you can simply write a configuration file specifying which cloud provider you are using, your credentials and the definition of the cluster you desire and it will build it for you. In [...]
Posted in Hadoop, Web Development | Tagged amazon ec2, cloud-computing, hadoop, hbase, maven, nosql, ruby, whirr, zookeeper |
By Phil Whelan on January 18, 2011
In this blog post I will introduce SQLShell and demonstrate, step-by-step, how to install it and start using it with MySQL. I will also reflect on the possibilites of using this with NoSQL technologies, such as HBase, MongoDB, Hive, CouchDB, Redis and Google BigQuery.
SQLShell is a cross-platform, cross-database command-line tool for SQL, much like psql for PostgreSQL or the mysql command-line tool for MySQL.
Posted in Databases | Tagged clapper.org, couchdb, google storage, hbase, hive, homebrew, jdbc, mongodb, mysql, nosql, oracle, postgresql, psql, rdbms, redis, scala, sqlcmd, sqlite, sqlshell |
By Phil Whelan on January 11, 2011
In this post I will define what I believe to be the most important projects within the Apache Projects for building scalable web sites and generally managing large volumes of data.
Posted in Data processing, Web Development | Tagged activemq, apache projects, apache software foundation, asf, cassandra, hadoop, hbase, high scalability, lucene, mahout, rabbitmq, solr, zeromq, zookeeper |
