FESI Studying NOSQL (Cassandra, Hadoop, and Voldemort)

Last week's kickoff of FESI's research program went very well. There are a number of folks (>500) who are now following this blog on Java.net, and a number who have gotten involved.  While we wait for more folks, we'll be researching new technologies, the first being NOSQL databases.  If the kind of topics we're research interests you, please feel free to join the project; we need to reach a critical mass of developers before we move on to our next phase of research.  While we wait, we will take a look at current open-source projects, identifying what's moving from bleeding-edge to becoming more accepted.  This will help us choose what technologies to research in-depth.  We'll start with NOSQL databases, but if anyone has a suggestion of another technology, we'll research that one next. NOSQL databases seem to fit into the definition of being bleeding-edge to more accepted.  A nosql database is a database which is designed to be "non-relational, distributed, open-source and horizontal scalable. The original intention has been modern web-scale databases." (definition blatently stolen, from nosql-database.org) For the next week I'll be looking at three strong representatives in this category: Hadoop/HBase (they've got some great merchandise in thier online store, I recently got a Hadoop sweatshirt), Cassandra (what appears to be t...

Date: May, 05 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/fossesi/archive/2010/05/05/fesi-studying-nosql-cassandra-hadoop-and-voldemort

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