Log-based Change Data Capture - lessons learnt
My article on medium summarizes experiences from various projects with log-based change data...
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Category: NoSQL
Calvin: distributed ACID transactions
Most distributed databases do not offer ACID transactions. The support of linear scalability is...
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Q&A on Data Integration and Big Data
Roberto Zicari did a Q&A with me about Data Integration and Big Data. Covered topics are Data...
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NoSQL, NewSQL, cloud-native databases
The first NoSQL databases were created in the 2000s. Companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter &...
Read MoreJSON and ISO SQL Standard
JSON was initially developed to exchange data via RESTful APIs (Representative State Transfer Application Programming Interface). The encoding is always Unicode, mostly UTF8. Programmable Web contains a variety of links to APIs...
Read MoreSchemaless revolution and data migration burden
The need to model all data up front caused developers to tag relational databases with attributes like inflexible, dated, annoying, painful, etc. It is often not possible anymore to define a schema that remains stable for...
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Lambda Architecture, Master Dataset and Data Vault
The Lambda Architecture got known after Nathan Marz’ and James Warren’s book about Big...
Read MoreSQL – Only the Strong Survive
There are tons of tech predictions at the end of every year. Eric Knorr lists “The incredible SQL comeback” in his 9 enterprise tech trends for 2017 and beyond. An old, mature programming language as the...
Read MoreDataBeat week 06/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Modeling “Data Modeler Of 2020” YouTube video by Steve Hoberman addresses topics like modeling for NoSQL or BigData,...
Read MoreDataBeat week 04/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Storage “Introducing Espresso – LinkedIn’s hot new distributed document store” by Aditya Auradkar contains...
Read MoreDataBeat week 02/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingSteve Hoberman asked the question “Create a logical data model?” on his blog and supplied his and...
Read MoreDataBeat week 01/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingData independence as the key idea of RDBMS is illustrated in “Relational algebra-How it makes Relational Databases go...
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