(Smaller) Compute Grids face off, some Math and Cassandra at it again

Head over to Dzone to see how these Open Source Compute Grids stack up against each other - GridGain vs Hazelcast (and Hadoop for reference). Compared to Cassandra, Hadoop and Voldemort that's installed on monstrous scales, these are for mere mortals - I mean Enterprise deployments. I say this without any intention of sounding sarcastic.

Oh, talking about Cassandra, did you hear Reddit also switched last week? Cassandra seems unstoppable. I remember just a year ago when Memcached was all the rage. Now it's Cassandra. Big Database vendors (and Storage companies) are definitely taking notice. Last year there was a rash of announcements by DB vendors that they had implemented Columnar storage and MapReduce. It reminds me of Gandhi's quote - "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". Way to go Apache projects!

Note to self - The mathematics behind Hadoop-based systems might come in handy later.

Spring Batch - and you thought you needed Hadoop for scalable Batch processing. Hey, didn't I say - mere mortals and Enterprise? I'm not sure how many people are really using this or how good it is. But I wish we had a simple framework like this when I wrote batch programs for a bank a few years ago.

Ever the heard the term Intrapreneur? Big Companies Can Innovate, if they Act Small is worth a quick look.

Peace!