Posts from the ‘Links’ Category
I’ve been aware of a number of so called nosql projects (databases that aren’t relational) for some time and I finally have an opportunity to use one for a good reason.
Redis is an extremely fast key-value pair database (a hash table basically) that also includes fast, atomic set and list operations. I’m planning to use it as part of my group software project at uni, the project requires us to handle large amounts of data with a large number of requests per second, which makes 110,000 writes per second (one of the features of Redis) very appealing.
So, the point of this blog is for me to post about things that interest me, this seems like a pretty obvious start.
Node.js is “Evented I/O for V8 javascript” this means you can perform I/O (read files, send across the internet etc) in an extremely efficient way, and write your code in JavaScript (something I find very attractive). I am currently using this for a number of projects including Ircster (more posts on this later).
