links for 2007-09-25

A nice exposition of eventual consistency. Makes the point that there’s no difference to the end user whether a transaction failed because a forklift crushed the product or a dirty read said it was available when it wasn’t.

OAuth is a nice complement to OpenID, allowing limite access to machine APIs to be delegated. Good for connecting services together.

Wide tables and sparse data… isn’t that a definition of RDF :)

Vertical partitioning implemented with a column store

Describes the H-Store architecture (a step on from C-Store). Looks like some very interesting research is going on at MIT CSAIL

Michael Stonebraker’s company and column-store product