Clock synchronization...

 

Wikipedia says practical limit is 200us with ntp over lan. And 10ms over Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

 

Precision time protocol is supposed to improve on this.. (also over lan)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol

 

http://ptpd.sourceforge.net/

 

 

More Cassandra fan mail, indexes on cassandra.

http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/cassandra-randompartitioner-vs-orderpreservingpartitioner/

http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/hbase-vs-cassandra-why-we-moved/

Interesting benchmark papers

 

Benchmark comparison of Cassandra, HBase, Sharded MySql, and PNUTS (Yahoo proprietary)

http://www.brianfrankcooper.net/pubs/ycsb.pdf

 

Led me to this comparison of Batch processing techniques: Parallel SQL / Map Reduce etc.

http://database.cs.brown.edu/sigmod09/benchmarks-sigmod09.pdf

 

 

 

Saving for later investigation

http://code.google.com/p/korus/

Now this is funny:

This is implemented in Java, a language I have been told by people who get heavily voted up on this site is a ball and chain.

BigTable is implemented in C++ or Java. Cassandra appears to be most or all Java. But Java and other compiled languages are death for startups and corporations. Error! Error! Does not compute! Why aren't they using Ruby or Lisp?

 

visual map reduce article

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/03/14/map-reduce-ndash-a-visual-explanation.aspx

Cassandra paper

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf

Visual GUide to NoSQL systems

http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

cassandra at digg

http://about.digg.com/node/564

Another blog roll

Another blog to follow...
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/

McRIb is Back!!!

My Hero:
http://www.questionsleep.com/mindspill/?p=1196
MCRIB IS BACK, AND I WILL MURDER EVERY LAST MOTHERFUCKER THAT GETS IN
THE WAY OF ME AND THAT SANDWICH BECAUSE WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THIS
RAPTURE WILL LAST?!

Pacific NW abandoned mine locations

http://images.brainyquote.com/types/WA.mine.html

More cassandra love fest

https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/mar/02/4_months_with_cassandra/

 

Amazons Dynamo

Ok, I'll admit my blog has become as much a list of things _I plan to
read_ as it is things I have read...
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html

At some point I'll go back and read my own blog.. Imagine that.

Good blog for all things cassandra

http://spyced.blogspot.com/

BASE vs ACID

BASE: An ACID alternative
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1394128