If an API is UX for programmers, then Redis should be in the Museum of Modern Art alongside the Mac Cube.

Eric Redmond, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks

Buddy Lindsey: Neo4j (Week 6)

The penultimate Buddy Lindsey article about Neo4j.

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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.

11 months ago -

Buddy Lindsey: CouchDB (Week 5)

Buddy’s 5th Fair and Balanced(TM) article about seven databases in seven weeks.

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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.

Seven 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.

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Buddy Lindsey: MongoDB (Week 4)

@BuddyLindsey’s 4th database review is Mongo. I’m still enjoying these… and so will you.

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