November 18, 2010  1:41 AM

Redis, NoSQL with extensive features – Part II

Posted by: Sasirekha R
cache, Key/Value Pair, KVP, NoSQL, Redis, Replication

Redis, NoSQL with extensive features - Part II

Replication

Redis supports master-slave replication that can be used to improve scalability - multiple slaves to scale to huge amounts of reads, as well as for improved data redundancy. Redis allows any number of slave servers to...

October 4, 2010  5:41 AM

Key-value Pair (KVP) – the backbone of NoSQL

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Key/Value Pair, KVP, memcached, NoSQL, RDBMS, Redis, set

Key-value Pair (KVP) - the backbone of NoSQL

Most NOSQL databases- BigTable, Hadoop, CouchDB, SimpleDB, memcached, Redis - use key-value pair (KVP) concept. A key-value pair (KVP) is a set of two linked data items: 1. a key (say account number or...

September 8, 2010  12:37 PM

MapReduce – Programming Paradigm for massively parallel computations

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Google, Key/Value Pair, KVP, MapReduce, NoSQL, Parallel Computing

MapReduce - Programming Paradigm for massively parallel computations

Most NOSQL database use the MapReduce programming model developed at Google, aimed at implementing large scale search and text processing on massive web data stored using BigTable and...