December 7, 2010 10:54 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Apache,
DeepQA,
IBM,
Jeopardy!,
Natural Language,
open source,
UIMA,
unstructured dataIBM's Jeopardy! Challenge - Human vs. Machine Contest
IBM is working on a computing system, code-named "Watson", which can understand and answer complex questions expressed in natural language.
The officials from Jeopardy! and IBM have announced that they will produce a human...
December 2, 2010 2:40 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Apache,
Cassandra,
distributed data storage,
Eventual Consistency,
NoSQL,
ReplicationApache Cassandra - Distributed Database - Part II
Replication
As seen in consistency, Cassandra offers the users the choice of synchronous and asynchronous replication. Reducing replication factor is easy as it only...
December 2, 2010 2:36 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Apache,
Cassandra,
distributed data storage,
Eventual Consistency,
NoSQL,
ReplicationApache Cassandra - Distributed Database - Part I
The Apache Cassandra is highly available, incrementally scalable, eventually consistent, distributed database, bringing together Amazon
December 1, 2010 12:34 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Apache,
Big Data,
Cloud,
Hadoop,
IBM,
ScalabilityHadoop Database for Big Data - Part III
For insert-only (in most cases at least) situations, involving crawling and indexing (both in the web and in Enterprises), blogs/wikis, facebook-like applications, search based retrieval (as against query based), batch-oriented or...
December 1, 2010 12:29 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Apache,
Big Data,
Hadoop,
NoSQL,
open source,
ScalabilityHadoop Database for Big Data - Part II
HBase
HBase uses a data model similar to that of Google's Bigtable. Data is logically organized into tables, rows and columns. A data row has a sortable row key and an arbitrary number of columns....
September 9, 2010 1:39 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Amazon,
Apache,
Cloud,
CouchDB,
CouchOne,
Document Store,
NoSQLSome more Titbits on CouchDB
In an earlier blog
September 8, 2010 3:40 AM
Posted by: Sasirekha R
Apache,
CAP Theorm,
Consistency,
CouchDB,
Document Store,
NoSQL,
Relational Database,
ScalabilityCouchDB - NOSQL - for Document based applications
CouchDB - as the name suggests- has
relax as the byline to CouchDB's official logo, and when you start CouchDB it says: "
Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax"!
CouchDB creators...
