The End of an Architectural Era
A NoSQL milestone from 2007 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Category · 5 papers · 2 articles
Modern NoSQL
Cassandra, PNUTS, YCSB, graph databases — the post-2008 NoSQL landscape and its benchmarks.
Papers
5 foundational papers
PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform
A NoSQL milestone from 2008 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
A NoSQL milestone from 2009 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB
A NoSQL milestone from 2010 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
The Graph Traversal Pattern
A NoSQL milestone from 2011 whose ideas keep shaping modern data infrastructure.
Blog articles
2 essays
Interview: A Sharding Architect on Scaling Databases in 2026
We sat down with a fictional principal database engineer who has resharded production systems three times without a customer-facing outage. This interview covers the practical decisions behind sharding strategy, the anti...
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Kafka and Streaming Architectures for Distributed Databases
Event streaming platforms like Kafka have quietly become the connective tissue between distributed databases, turning point-to-point replication into a durable, replayable log. This article traces how streaming architectures apply — and complicate —
13 min read