Seen that? – Seen that? – Columns versus Rows
Seen that? – Columns versus Rows at Googlestack
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 [...] Read More
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
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
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
Google’s Bigtable – Distributed Storage System at On Storage
StorageMojo ยป 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