Columns versus Rows at Googlestack

In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theoretical these will definitely serve as a good and thorough (but not so hard to read) explanation on the subject matter. Once we got through these we'll see some more practical things in the next posts. Here's the list [...] Read More


Open-source alternatives to BigTable at Googlestack

disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions presented here are the opinions of my own One of the most important google stack components is BigTable, the underlying data store. With it's proven scalability and availability characteristics, there was no wonder that sooner or later some open source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More


Outline of The Google Software Stack at Googlestack

Introduction The beginning of the research on software scalability spurred the research on fault tolerance and management technologies. After all, if you have a lot of software running on hundreds or even thousands of machines you have to know what's going on inside this set of machines, and when things break, you want the software to take care of it. These concepts, scalability, fault tolerance and software management, are so inherently [...] Read More


Google’s Bigtable - Distributed Storage System at On Storage

StorageMojo » Google's Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I: I know full well that I lack the background to *really* understand this sort of system, but I love the idea of it, I love reading about it - and I love what Google are doing to push the technology envelope. [...] Read More


Girl Gamers Unite to form Versus at XboxSpace

Ex-Frag Doll UK Voodoo FD has teamed up with another UK Gamer Vixen to create a new gaming website called ww.weareversus.com. The site, which officially launched yesterday, will act as a home to the two gamers, as well as a showcase for VersusS TV. As part of the launch, Voodoo FD has also changed her XBox Live gamertag to Siren.The focus is on sharing and venting views and opinions on [...] Read More