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Two phase commit (in spanner) is similar to a lock, so the short answer is YES you need locks for distributed TRANSACTIONS But you dont need transactions to do distributed computat…

This is a very good question but its also a leading question :) Datanet provides a level of abstraction such that business logic does not need to be framed in commutative operation…

I am sharing a concept of mine called SegundoNet slides: http://slidesha.re/1i8amDh blog: http://jaksprats.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/segundonet-a-secondary-cell-network-built-cheapl…

Recently I started cataloging all the changes I would make to Glass and wrote up a (not perfectly organized) power point presentation. More recently Google announced and released A…

I started the AlchemyDB project in early 2010. After two years, the project had graduated to become a hybrid Document-store/GraphDB/RDBMS/redis-store. AlchemyDB was then acquired b…

Link is back up as of 12:30 PDT

I recently joined the NoSQL company Aerospike (formerly Citrusleaf) with the goal of incrementally grafting AlchemyDB’s flexible data-modeling capabilities onto Aerospike’s high-ve…

I get my information on databases, datastores, big-data, etc… primarily from 3 bloggers: Todd Hoff of High Scalability, Alex Popescu of myNOSQL, and Curt Monash of DBMS2. Each of t…

in the redis community we have also discussed having a daemon sitting next to the server and doing localhost redis communication. The downsides to doing this are it introduces an e…

that will work (as good as can be hoped for). the process can be thought of as a map-reduce. first pass would be figure out where all your SETs are located and how big they are. th…

I am the author of Redisql and I wrote a blog post today explaining the concepts behind Redisql (a RDBMS on top of the NOSQL datastore redis) http://jaksprats.wordpress.com/2010/09…

what are you using as backend? mysql? postgres? couchdb? redis?