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I have been playing quite a bit with MongoDB lately. MongoDB is a nosql type database. It’s different than a simple k/v store however. It allows sorting, secondary indexes and such. It’s format is BSON a binary representation of JSON with some additions.

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I am very excited to start a new position at Shutterfly.com. Shutterfly is a well known internet property with a massivly growing customer base and thus new and interesting challenges in how to store, share, and organize data. What fantastic fun. I expect to post more on the growing NOSQL movement as well as continuing information on PostgreSQL and more traditional relational stores like Oracle.

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I added a couple of fixes to the code and released it as 1.0. We have been using it here at hi5 for some time w/o problems. Thanks everyone who has helped with feedback. Also thanks to Devrim GUNDUZ for his help. The latest version can be downloaded on pgfoundry.

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At Hi5, we currently use pg_reorg1.0.3 in order to organize data in a clustered fashion. I posted previously about the strategy. Our version is slightly modified, the modifications I made to the C code essentially allow pg_reorg to spin/wait for locks on the objects to be released before proceeding.

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I got the opportunity to test out some of the new Fusion-io Solid State ioDrive, and I thought I would post some results.

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