Buddy Lindsey: Neo4j (Week 6)
The penultimate Buddy Lindsey article about Neo4j.
Eric Redmond, author of “Seven Databases in Seven Weeks” spends a week in the Hashrocket office and talks with Paul Elliott about his book.
This isn’t the first interview I’ve ever done… but certainly the best produced. Thanks again for the killer week, HR!
An Amazing in Depth Review (Seven DBs)
I loved this walkthrough. Frédéric Dumont was very fair, and I enjoyed his take. He was also one of the best and most productive beta testers.
Fred: if you’r reading this, you’re in the book acknowledgements. Thanks for all of your help.
Buddy Lindsey: CouchDB (Week 5)
Buddy’s 5th Fair and Balanced(TM) article about seven databases in seven weeks.
You need to learn Hadoop. This little data analytics engine is so much more than mapreduce, and supports an ecosystem of pre-defined algorithms that makes me wonder why anyone would want to use Mongo’s built-in junk, for example.
1Seven Databases song from Railsberry. Or: 7 databases in 70 seconds… Lyrics by Jim Wilson and Eric Redmond. Performed by Eric.
European “Vacation”
I spent a refulgent week in Jacksonville, Florida with the impossibly brilliant HashRocket team; drinking expensive whisky, debating the merits of snowboarding v. surfing, and chatting about databases. I’ll put those videos online when available. I also created the worlds dumbest web service, rather than helping Ro debug Cypher queries. Sorry man.
Next week I’ll be running (read: flying) through (read: over) Europe. London UK on Apr 17&21, Krakow Poland Apr 18-20.
Although I no longer work with MongoHQ, my standing offer still applies: anyone who wants to meet up and chat about databases (or whisky, or snowboarding, or NodeJS) tweet me: @coderoshi. It doesn’t have to be MongoDB, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, Riak, Redis, Neo4j or HBase… I have opinions on OrientDB, HypergraphDB, Cassandra and others :)
A Neo4j Talk Disguised as NoSQL Talk
I tried to upload one of my (Eric Redmond’s) videos about database styles. But Tumblr seems to be finicky right now, so instead, here is Jim Webber’s amazing talk Highly Connected Data Models in NOSQL Stores. It’s 80% about Neo4j, but it’s informative and captivating.
Buddy Lindsey: MongoDB (Week 4)
@BuddyLindsey’s 4th database review is Mongo. I’m still enjoying these… and so will you.
Seven Databases as a Service
Installing and managing databases can be hard. In fact, it’s become quite à la mode to offload operations to a business dedicated to a specific database. So if you want to play with these databases, but not install them, check out these DBaaS’s (database as a service):
- PostgreSQL: Heroku Postgres
- Riak: None (Someone should make one. Could Enterprise pull the multitenency from CS?)
- HBase: Cloudera
- MongoDB: MongoHQ, MongoLab
- CouchDB: Cloudant
- Neo4j: Hosted Neo4j (Currently only through Heroku)
- Redis: RedisToGo
I cheated, I know. Riak doesn’t have one (apparently) and Mongo has two.
The core purpose of Seven Databases in Seven Weeks is to introduce developers to the growing options in data management. What it was never intended to be was an installation guide, or a DBA resource. Hopefully, these service prove helpful.
