A closer look at column stores with Hypertable and Cassandra

This month the London DeNormalised meetup group will be at Skills Matter again to focus on big table inspired technologies Hypertable and Cassandra. We have Doug Judd the CEO of Hypertable and Tom Wilkie, VP of Engineering at Acunu speaking at the meetup.

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DeNormalised London Conference - Call for Presentations

We are thrilled to announce a second stage for the DeNormalised conference 2012! If you think you have a presentation that fits with the DeNormalised mission, then we would love to hear from you.

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Cypher Query Language for Graphs

Neo Technology are developing a new query language to make querying graph structures much simpler. Andrés Taylor and Alistair Jones of Neo Technology present the design decisions made while working on Cypher.

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DeNormalised London Meetup

We have set up a new meetup group in London for anyone who is interested in NOSQL technologies, big data and data science techniques. Join the DeNormalised London Meetup Group to see when and where the meetups are taking place.

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Data Science Skills Gap

Everyone has been worrying about getting more programmers and engineers trained up to keep up with the demand of innovation in the technology sector. This is indeed an ongoing problem. Just ask anyone tasked with recruiting a decent programmer in the last ten years! The current skills shortage is nothing compared to what is coming over the next five to ten years. Due to all the advances in online services and the technology sector there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of data being produced. According to Berkeley's school of management, more data has been produced in the last 3 years than in the entire duration of human existence.

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Get Ready for Cassandra Europe 2012

For any budding Cassandra developers out there get yourself along to the Cassandra Europe 2012 conference. The event is being hosted by Acunu a London based startup that have developed a bespoke storage engine to give a massive performance boost to Cassandra. The conference is on Wednesday March 28th at the Hilton London Metropole.

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Building a data science team

From the Strata Jumpstart conference 2011, DJ Patil presents Data Science and Building Data Teams. DJ starts off by introducing data science and discussing what it really means. In the course of introducing data science DJ prefers, rather than defining data science as a practice or a role, instead to look at it through the eyes of the organisation. Describing an organisation as data driven if it uses data in a timely fashion to improve performance, shape new products and inform business decisions.

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Preview of Riak Control

Mark Phillips, community manager at Basho, presents the new Riak administration interface, Riak Control. There have been many attempts to create an administration interface for Riak through the community. These attempts have either not been maintained or Basho feels they aren't quite up to scratch, so they have decided to build their own. Enter Riak Control.

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Riak's stable performance makes it a hit for Posterous

Julio Capote from Posterous talks about how they ended up picking Riak as their database of choice to back their cache mechanism for caching posts. Riak wasn't their first choice by a long way. They ran a number of databases in production, including MySQL, Redis and MongoDB. Riak got the final seal of approval due to it's reliable performance metrics.

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Dwight Merriman on MongoDB Internals

The final presentation of the evening at the first MongoDB user group in London hosted by 10gen was given by Dwight Merriman, CEO of 10gen. Most presentations given by the CEO of a company would be along the lines of, here are some of our customers, this is how people are using MongoDB and these are the trends we see in the future on data persistance. Being a coding CEO who is still commiting code to MongoDB, Dwight took a very different approach for his presentation and dove deep into the internals of MongoDB.

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