For the past month, I’ve been evaluating my first graph database – Neo4j. In this post, I will write about how I got into this database and in the next one, I will tell you about my thoughts on it.Like all computer educated individuals, I was first acquainted with databases back in school and of course, […]
After I started reading the Elasticsearch’s documentation thoroughly, I realized I missed one really useful feature of it and that’s batch processing! Yes, I had missed the fact that Elasticsearch supports batch insertion / update which as we all know reduces the overhead cost usually. Luckily my implementation could easily support batch processing of data with a […]
So after implementing the new architecture, I decided it is time to take the whole system out for a spin. I’ve already had chosen some dataset to accompany the system and now I want to test the system’s performance with them. Considering the system architecture, there are four component that I can tune to get a […]
After months of going back and forth, I made the decision to change the architecture of Acidbase because of the following technical issues: Making sure no entity goes un-indexed: as I will get to, this was the number one reason why I revised Acidbase’s architecture. Having no guarantee that the changes of your database will definitely […]
Every software working with data or databases has the aspect of system security. ACL is the term given to the part of the system which implements this security aspect and it stands for Access Control List. You can also call it: who can do what. Through my years of working / implementing software systems with security aspects, […]
In the past two posts I described my motivation and idea on how to combine an ACID RDBMS with a BASE NoSQL to form a solution that can be beneficial to a specific range of problems. Now it’s time to bring it home by connecting the rest of the dots. Mind your own business There are two major […]
Picking up where we left off, in the previous post we talked about the differences between RDBMSs and NoSQLs and why there is no “one size fit all” in this product line. Now it’s time to give the good news, having some constraints set we can come up with a pattern for our dress which might not […]
