Tuesday, October 27, 2009

NoSQL interests

NoSQL OaklandWe're organizing a NoSQL meetup in Oakland on Monday next week. In addition to helping set the meetup agenda, the "Topics you are interested in" question in the sign up form provides some interesting insight on the current interests of the NoSQL community. Here's a quick breakdown of the key terms distilled from the 88 signups we've received so far.

Note that the data is biased towards Apache projects due to the meetup being organized at ApacheCon US 2009.

Projects


The following open source projects were mentioned. The list is in alphabetical order, as the data set is too small to make any reasonable ordering by popularity.

Topics


Many responses were about the "big data" aspect of the NoSQL movement. Some frequent keywords: distributed storage, large transactional data, consistency, failover, availability, reliability, stability, failure detection, failed node replacement, (petabyte) scalability, consistency levels, storage technology, performance, benchmarks, optimization, backup and recovery, map/reduce

Another common theme were the various database types and the NoSQL "development model". Keywods: document stores, key/value stores, consistent hashing, graph databases, object databases, persistent queues, content modeling, migration from the relational model, social graphs, streaming, software as a service, offline applications, full text search, natural language processing

Beyond the above big themes, I found it interesting that the following technologies were specifically named: Erlang, Java, WebSimpleDB, WebDAV

In addition to specific topics, many people were asking for case studies or "lessons learned" -type presentations.

4 comments:

  1. Hmmh, no Midgard in the list?

    http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/why_you_should_use_a_content_repository_for_your_application/
    http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/couchdb_and_midgard_talking_with_each_other/

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  2. Good point. I guess we need some more Midgardians to sign up. :-)

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  3. Next week is a bit early to fly to Oakland, but maybe you'll be able to tell a bit about what we do :-)

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