While at SXSW Interactive, Adam and Wynn got to attend the Data Cluster Meetup hosted by Rackspace and Infochimps. Things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases.

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Featuring:

Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

The videos mentioned are dead to the internet, thanks to Blip.tv.

The participants:

Stu Hood from Cassandra
Jan Lehnardt from CouchDB
Wynn Netherland from The Changelog, subbing for MongoDB
Werner Vogels CTO at Amazon

Items mentioned in the discussion:

Cassandra The Apache Cassandra Project brings together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model and powers some of the world’s largest sites.
CouchDB Apache,CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
MongoDB Combining the best features of document databases, key-value stores, and RDBMSes.
Amazon SimpleDB a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration.
Dynamo Dynamo is a highly available, proprietary key-value structured storage system that powers parts of Amazon Web Services.
Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Persevere Persevere helps you rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications.
Redis Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets.
Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables.

Special thanks to @jchris for the awesome CouchDB theme song!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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