Items tagged nosql in 2012
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Any source available to download sample data (in 10+ GB) for testing?
Wikipedia has some pretty interesting dumps, in both XML and SQL format: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/I...
[... 100 words]NoSQL: Whats the simplest on disk key-value storage?
Surprisingly there doesn’t seem to be an obvious answer to this. Here are a few options:
[... 164 words]What is the best NoSQL database to store unstructured data?
Any of the document stores are worth a look—I’d suggest investigating MongoDB, Riak and CouchDB.
[... 33 words]NoSQL: On a shared server, what are the alternatives to using SQL?
You could probably run Redis on a shared server—it doesn’t need to be installed as root, but it does require a process to run all the time which shared hosts may not allow.
[... 138 words]Benchmarks for scalability in NoSQL systems?
NoSQL systems are enormously varied which makes it hard (and not particularly constructive) to benchmark them against each other. How would you compare the performance of Redis, an in-memory data structure server, with Cassandra, a distributed redundant column store?
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