Your Mouse Is a Database (2012)

March 27, 2012 Volume 10, issue 3 PDF Your Mouse is a Database Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and realtime streaming services and push notifications. Erik Meijer Among the hottest buzzwords in the IT industry these days is "big data," but the "big" is something of a misnomer: big data is not just about volume, but also about velocity and variety:4 • The volume of data ranges from a small number of items stored in the closed world of a conventional RDMS (relational database management system) to a large number of items spread out over a large cluster of machines or across the entire World Wide Web. • The velocity of data ranges from the consumer synchronously pulling data from the source (negative velocity) to the source asynchronously pushing data to its clients (positive velocity), at different speeds, ranging from millisecond-latency push-based streams of stock quotes to reference data pulled by an application from a central repository o ... Read full article.