NoSQL, Part 3- or -

A Modest Proposalfor a heretical

Key Value Store

•Open Source and Standards Advocate

•Community Manager

•Drizzle DB merge steward

•Hire me!

Mark Atwood

The story so far...

•Brian Aker, “Guide to NoSQL” at Open SQL Camp Portland 2009.

•Mark Atwood, “Guide to NoSQL, redux” at MySQL Conference 2010.

•And now, this...

NoSQL Patterns

•BigTable + Dynamo

•Document

•Graph

•Key Value

My Favorite KVSes

•InnoDB / HailDB

•MemCacheD

•ReDiS

•S3 / Walrus / Swift

Want a KVS that

•is optimized for real hardware

•uses fast disk streaming IO

•can use random writes

Want a KVS that

•has cherry picked features

•is usable by ordinary programmers

•has a powerful simple API

Atwood’s Law of Computer Latency

Processor cycles, storage density, and network bandwidth are

increasing,faster than the speed of light is

getting faster.

•XML - JSON

•REST / HTTP

•TCP/IP

•Structured Data

•In-kernel

•syscall API

•half-IPC

Namespaces

A namespace isa simple ASCII

string

A namespace can contain objects & more namespaces

An object is a bytestream with a

name

Access Control:Use the process

UID.Public/Private.

Read/Write.

Mutable Objects

Can write to an existing object at

any offset

Many processes can write to the

same object at the same time

Some more ideas

•More than one name pointing at the same object

•A network access protocol

•Metadata (modification date, MIME type, etc?)

•“Bake in” the API to existing and new languages

Thank you!