Tag: webscale

Upcoming Workshop on Web-Scale Discovery Services a First-of-its Kind Event

26 June, 2011 (02:57) | Home Technology | By: Admin

It’s no secret that Web-Scale discovery services are a big deal. Web scale discovery is a transformative technology that allows librarians and patrons to search seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote, preharvested and indexed content, receiving relevancy-ranked results in the intuitive interface expected by today’s information seekers.  It is a big part of [...]

Riak with Innostore: A fault tolerant, web-scale, key-value store in minutes

5 June, 2009 (20:28) | Home Technology | By: Admin

Riak is a relatively new and exciting entrant in the #NoSQL space. In their own words: Riak combines a decentralized key-value store, a flexible map/reduce engine, and a friendly HTTP/JSON query interface to provide a database ideally suited for Web applications. Innostore is a simple Erlang application that provides and API for storing and retrieving [...]