Linkage

• Elastic Search another key/value store that allows multiple servers to cluster Lucene and uses a simple JSON API.


• Katta a project for using Hadoop and Lucene together.


• ElephantDB which uses MapReduce to produce indexes for key/values.


• How SimpleGeo Built a Scalable Geospatial Database with Apache Cassandra using Geohash (to flatten a 2d space into 1d) and Cassandra to provide a GIS database for exact match, range and proximity searching. Claims that rebalancing isn't necessary


• Google's Percolator paper about providing incremental updates to search indexes instead of using MapReduce.


• End of IPv4 or is it: IPocalypse and Vint Cerf and Geoff Huston at the recent Linx Conf Australia


• Efficient SPARQL joins, ontologies as games, IOS Semantic Web Journal


• TDD as a way of getting things done, Testing Javascript with Jasmine and The fallacy of trading quality in software.


• Brisbane Functional Users Group videos