Drop ACID and think about data by Bob Ippolito of Mochi Media, Inc. from PyCon 2009.
The Video:
http://blip.tv/file/1949416
The Slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/rawwell/dropacidpycon2009
Glossary:
ACID
CAP Theorem
BASE
BigTable by Google
Dynamo by Amazon
Cassandra, an Apache Incubator Project, formerly of Facebook
Python dict
Immutable vs mutable (computer science)
Tokyo Cabinet
Tokyo Tyrant
Redis
Document database
CouchDB
MongoDB
JSON
BSON
Sharding
Column databases
MonetDB
LucidDB
Vertica (commercial, MochiAds uses this)
Bitmap Index
BBC: byte-aligned bitmap compression
WAC: word-aligned hybrid code
FastBit
Bloom filter
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Been watching couchDB for some time…. looks good, but not ready yet.