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Designing A Non-Relational Database Engine

Data Engineering Podcast

Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Oren Eini about the work of designing and building a NoSQL database engine Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management? Can you describe what constitutes a NoSQL database? What are the factors that convince teams to use a NoSQL vs. SQL database?

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Expert Talk TLDR: SQL vs NoSQL Databases in the Modern Data Stack

Rockset

Last week, Rockset hosted a conversation with a few seasoned data architects and data practitioners steeped in NoSQL databases to talk about the current state of NoSQL in 2022 and how data teams should think about it. NoSQL is great for well understood access patterns. Rick Houlihan Where does NoSQL fit in the modern data stack?

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HBase Deprecation at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

The subsequent blog post will delve into how we looked into our specific needs, evaluated multiple candidates and decided on the adoption of a new database technology. Overview of HBase at Pinterest Introduced in 2013, HBase was Pinterest’s first NoSQL datastore. To explore and apply to open roles, visit our Careers page.

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TimescaleDB: Fast And Scalable Timeseries with Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman - Episode 18

Data Engineering Podcast

In your blog post that explains the design decisions for how Timescale is implemented you call out the fact that the inserted data is largely append only which simplifies the index management. The landscape of time series databases is extensive and oftentimes difficult to navigate.

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Why Real-Time Analytics Requires Both the Flexibility of NoSQL and Strict Schemas of SQL Systems

Rockset

We'll be publishing more posts in the series in the near future, so subscribe to our blog so you don't miss them! So are schemaless NoSQL databases, which capably ingest firehoses of data but are poor at extracting complex insights from that data. NoSQL Comes to the Rescue.

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Citus Data: Distributed PostGreSQL for Big Data with Ozgun Erdogan and Craig Kerstiens - Episode 13

Data Engineering Podcast

Contact Info Citus Data citusdata.com @citusdata on Twitter citusdata on GitHub Craig Email Website @craigkerstiens on Twitter Ozgun Email ozgune on GitHub Parting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today?

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Big Data Technologies that Everyone Should Know in 2024

Knowledge Hut

In this blog post, we will discuss such technologies. NoSQL databases are designed for scalability and flexibility, making them well-suited for storing big data. The most popular NoSQL database systems include MongoDB, Cassandra, and HBase. It is especially true in the world of big data.