Cassandra is an open sourced distributed database that’s part of the Apache project. It was originally developed at Facebook. Twitter has announced that they will continue to use MySQL to store tweets but will be using Cassandra to develop a real-time analytics capability. Read the rest in the Techcrunch article.
Oct 05
As the Open Source software movement continues the strengthen, questions abound about where the opportunities to create commercially viable solutions. Red Hat did it with Linux. Can Cloudera do it with Hadoop? Read this GigaOm article.
Sep 22
Check out this Techcrunch article highlighting Myspace’s new recommendation system, Qizmt. It’s built on a mapreduce framework.
Jul 08
NoSQL is about open source, distributed, non-relational databases. At a recent meetup in San Francisco, some of the following new technologies were discussed…
Voldemort
Cassandra
Dynomite
HBase
Hypertable
CouchDB
Here’s a ComputerWorld article with more info.
May 23
Axiis is a new open source visualization tool built in Flex.
Apr 21
Dec 10
As budgets tighten and solution choices expand many companies are starting to consider open source solutions to things like CRM, productivity software and more. Here’s a list from John Perez of 25 alternatives to enterprise software.
