Cody Taylor

DB Guy writes “There’s an article over on Read Write Web about what the future of relational databases looks like when faced with new challenges to its dominance from key/value stores, such as SimpleDB, CouchDB, Project Voldemort and BigTable. The conclusion suggests that relational databases and key value stores aren’t really mutually exclusive and instead are different tools for different requirements.”

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Joe Stump, Lead Architect at Digg, gave this presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo. What really struck me however was how Joe thought MemcacheDB Will be the biggest new kid on the block in scaling.

Anonymous Pirate writes “Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty. The four defendants have run the site since 2004 after it was started in 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån. The Swedish public service television announced that they are going to send a live audio stream from the trial. It will be broadcast without editing or translation.”

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