Big Data: principles and best practices (new book)

Re:Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) by knb on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @03:49AM (#3446223)

Will there be a chapter about how your preferred architecture compares to in-memory databases technologies? SAP has been creating a lot of marketing hype on this in the last years. Indeed I think a lot of business problems can be solved by cramming more RAM into centralized servers. Yesterday's big-data problems are now routine if you have a dozens-of gigabytes of RAM machine available.

Or is this question not applicable at all (because the architecture makes no assumptions on the type of data storage); the requirements and usage scenarios are completely different?

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Re:Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) by nathanmarz on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @04:00AM (#3446250)

The architecture described in the book is fully distributed and horizontally scalable, and I won't be looking at scale-up techniques. The chapters on Storm and distributed RPC does have an emphasis on using lots of RAM for certain tasks though by partitioning data appropriately across the nodes.

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