Comments on: Why Storage Needs More Structure http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Commercializing Big Data http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164539 Mon, 31 May 2010 13:02:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164539 [...] which recently emerged to provide commercial support and services for Cassandra, a popular distributed database that originated at Facebook and is now used by Twitter, Digg, [...]

]]> By: Why Digg Digs Cassandra – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164538 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:01:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164538 [...] a post last year, contributing writer Gary Orenstein pointed out that thanks to these attributes, Cassandra has potential applications beyond inbox search that include [...]

]]> By: Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164537 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:05:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164537 [...] Why Storage Needs More Structure [...]

]]> By: Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud — MIT Technology Review — GigaOM Pro http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164536 Thu, 28 May 2009 10:44:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164536 [...] footprint of computing. We’re taxing current technology, from the silicon to the software, with massive data demands, and technology like this is a piece of the solution, I’m [...]

]]> By: Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164535 Sun, 17 May 2009 16:01:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164535 [...] and includes names like CouchDB, Hypertable, HBASE, Tokyo Cabinet, LightCloud and Cassandra, which we discussed here. These projects are concisely summarized here and here. In addition, LinkedIn has made most of the [...]

]]> By: Ceo executive helped organized organizing principle reach reveal success that them top top | Free Organizing Tips http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164534 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:57:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164534 [...] The storage industry has been pumping up the growth of unstructured data for years. But unstructured data without a structured means of finding, accessing, and retrieving files and objects is basically useless. Many storage administrators are now More Organizing Tips [...]

]]> By: Alan Wilensky http://gigaom.com/2009/03/22/why-storage-needs-more-structure/#comment-164533 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:13:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=42979#comment-164533 Once you open up the “mason jar” (a file only known to its managing application), you let out the worms. At the file level we have behaved in a manner good for the OS, at the data level we have dithered over Semantics. In the database, we have added the structure at a steep cost – guaranteed scaling failures and complex brittle solutions to the same.

Maybe this linked data pipe dream will awake from slumber, Kingsley? Where are you.

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