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Other methods taking this lean mindset even further include a range of distributed key-value stores.
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Flatter key-value data stores are used because that is a technology that can scale for web apps, but using that technology significantly constrains the applications that can be built on top of it.
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MySQL and relational databases are not going away, nor can their functionality be replaced one for one with the key-value stores mentioned earlier.
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This trend away from the overhead of a relational database, which stressed completeness, to the emerging distributed key-value stores that stress scale, represents a shift in designing web architectures.
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At one extreme you have flat key-value models scaling web apps in the simple case and at the other extreme of complex relational analytics the existing relational implementations are horribly inadequate.
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One can then tell Ugarit to "archive" a subdirectory of a filesystem into a given index, along with a set of key-value metadata describing it.
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It's a wrapper to the gdbm library, which provides file-based persistent key-value mappings.
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Objects have a dictionary interface for their key-value properties, and methods appear to be verbs.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » /usr/bin/playsh 2006
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Apple's been testing this integration with beta pre-release versions of iTunes 10.5, but so far these versions have not brought over anything that falls outside of this 64 KB key-value data.
CNET News.com 2011
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Ben suggested that I use Windows Azure Table storage for storing my key-value pairs which I'll do in my example, but you could really use any store that is external to your application…
Site Home Brian Swan - MSFT 2011
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