Stewart Smith: Dropping ACID: Eating Data in a Web 2.0 Cloud World

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This is part survey, part critique of the various Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability models available from various modern databases and data stores used in modern Web and Cloud environments. We’ll not just look at the single machine solution but how these systems work [...]

Stewart Smith: Drizzle 7, GA and Supported: Current & Future Features

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Stewart explains the architecture that has evolved to culminate in the Drizzle 7 GA release. He discusses the future architectural direction of the Drizzle database and how this will enable Drizzle to be used as an application infrastructure component, not just a database server. Stewart Smith – OSDC 2011