Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon May 10 00:11:20 CDT 2010
How do these super fast databases work? Super databases like 'Cassandra'. Through a single system with a single CPU the process is fairly straight forward but now add multiple CPUs and to that the potential of multiple computers. The question is can multi-threaded applications be designed, that can grow in real-time, potentially have unlimited data and still perform at super speeds? The whole operation hinges on the ability of a system to generate unique hash key pairs at incredible speed and the subsequent ability to retrieve information via those keys. The following link is to a series of YouTube lectures given at Stanford University, some by Cliff Click, a senior developer for the Azul project (http://www.ccpalma.com). He gives the coding examples in Java but they are still easy to follow as the code is kept simple and VB/C like. In conclusion this links to a great series lectures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXgtXWejRM Jim