Dwight Merriman talks with Robert about the emerging NoSQL movement, the three types of non-relational data stores, Brewer’s CAP theorem, the weaker consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, document-oriented data stores, the data storage needs of modern web applications, and the open source MongoDB.
- 10-gen
- NoSQL – the Shift to a Non-Relational World by Dwight Merriman
- A series of blog posts on consistency in a distributed database (March 26 to April 15, 2010)
- Part 1 - Introduction and CAP
- Part 2 - Eventual Consistency
- Part 3 - Network Partitions
- Part 4 - Multi Data Center
- Part 5 - Multi Writer Eventual Consistency
- Part 6 - Consistency Chart
- Slides and video from MongoSF 2010
- Brewer’s presentation on the CAP theorem
