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This is my last in a series of blog posts about finding a flexible solution for managing digital asset metadata. As I mentioned at the beginning of the series, digital asset metadata is a challenge because of its variety. A video asset requires different metadata than an image, and assets sold through one aggregator will require […]
Six months ago, I was down at the MarkLogic World San Francisco conference just south of SFO, listening to the opening speeches. I was there primarily to hear more about what would end up being in the second phase of their Semantics offering, when a mention was made about V8 integration. Now V8 in this […]
In my last post, I demonstrated a “flexible” way to store digital asset metadata inside a relational database. The results were not perfect. Relational databases require a strict data schema so that all information fits into pre-defined two-dimensional tables. This make it very difficult to achieve “flexibility”. In other words, it is hard in a relational database […]
For someone evaluating Hadoop, the considerably large list of components in the Hadoop ecosystem can be overwhelming. Below you’ll find a reference table with keywords you may have heard in discussions concerning Hadoop as well as a brief description. Image courtesy of Hortonworks. Name Description HDFS Hadoop’s underlying distributed file system YARN Provides resource management […]
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