Sep 25 2007
links for 2007-09-25
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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.
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OAuth is a nice complement to OpenID, allowing limite access to machine APIs to be delegated. Good for connecting services together.
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Wide tables and sparse data… isn’t that a definition of RDF
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Vertical partitioning implemented with a column store
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Describes the H-Store architecture (a step on from C-Store). Looks like some very interesting research is going on at MIT CSAIL
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Michael Stonebraker’s company and column-store product
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