In-memory DB tables, shared nothing, time series, low latency and others

Some useful articles I read in the past few weeks.

Big data, shared nothing, distributed SQL, in-memory SQL:

• Realtime hadoop usage at Facebook
• Teradata
• Teradata Shared Nothing storage
• Teradata compared with Oracle Exadata
• Slightly dated but comparison doc between Teradata and Oracle
• Apache Derby's tuning docs
• MySQL's in-memory DB options
• Heap tables
• NDB storage

New age time series databases:

• Lumberyard
• OpenTSDB

Very good and detailed accounts of low latency Java based servers:

• DSL for High Frequency Trading
• LMAX
• LMAX Disruptor

Disk I/O and time related notes.

Programming and Java:

• The Principles of Good Programming
• JVM Bytecode for Dummies
• Data Structure Visualizations
• Java Concurrent Animated

Until next time,
Ashwin.