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CAP Theorem

A statement that claims that in distributed systems you cannot have consistency, availability and partition tolerance all at the same time (Wikipedia)

Call me maybe

An informative and entertaining speech by Kyle Kingsbury during RICON 2013 about network partitions and how NoSQL databases behave under these conditions:

Video | GitHub | Slides (mentioned at InfoQ) | InfoQ «Part 2» | investigating ElasticSearch | all at InfoQ

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Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL

Most users at one time or another have dealt with hierarchical data in a SQL database and no doubt learned that the management of hierarchical data is not what a relational database is intended for. The tables of a relational database are not hierarchical (like XML), but are simply a flat list. Hierarchical data has a parent-child relationship that is not naturally represented in a relational database table. [read more]

Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza

This Blog post is an edited and expanded transcript of a talk given at Strange Loop 2014. The video recording (embedded below) has been watched over 8,000 times. For those of you who prefer reading this blog post is for you!

Base: An Acid Alternative

In partitioned databases, trading some consistency for availability can lead to dramatic improvements in scalability.

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