A problem at work led to me run a few quick queries to determine if MoSQL was the way to go, we had some legacy code constraints and some legacy skills constraints. Continue reading “Some thoughts on No SQL”
Some thoughts on No SQL
Category: Storage
Gdrive & Linux
My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found this page
http://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/276/how-to-install-google-drive/2478#2478
and installed grive 2, looks like it needs rc files
ooOOOoo
It seems that googledrive integration with Linux is going to be weak for some reason, it can’t be because it’s hard given the Linux expertise that exists in the company and they seem not to be implementing WEBDAV. This is a bit of a pain as I’d love to use the default file managers on my Linux builds. However, google publish a developer API and Nautilus is open source. It could be done. Continue reading “Gdrive & Linux”
Storage for the 21st century
I had a chat with Kieron Bradley, a long time collaborator and colleague and we looked at new age storage/persistence architectures. New ideas are coming out of Linkedin, and the recommended further reading includes, Continue reading “Storage for the 21st century”
Lustre
Lustre is the premier HPC parallel file system. It was originally an open source project which Sun Microsystems bought and when the Oracle aquisition occurred it seems that Oracle failed to run with it.
This was written in 2011; I looked it in 2018 when one of the links failed. Frankly I wondered if it was still in use or had been replaced by newer technologies, but as Wikipedia reports, it’s still going strong.
Here are my notes … Continue reading “Lustre”