Tuesday, January 26, 2010

[Conf] Cloud Computing at OOP 2010

Today I attended the session called "Cloud Computing ohne Buzzwords - und wie sieht die Zukunft aus" at the OOP 2010, provided and overview of Cloud Computing and their effects to present Software Architectures. Till this day I had no experience with Cloud Computing, and this session gave me the opportunity to hear some basic information about Cloud Computing and the benefits and risks that such a paradigme comes with. Good canditates are Amazon or Google. Both provide a wide range of services around the topic Cloud Computing.

A very interesting point is that RDBMS do not work very well in  the Cloud and alternative systems such as "NoSQL" becomes more popular through Cloud Computing:

Next Generation Databases mostly address some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open-source and horizontal scalable. The movement began early 2009 and is growing rapidly. Often more characteristics apply as: schema-free, replication support, easy API, eventually consistency, and more. So the misleading term "nosql" (the community now translates it with "not only sql") should be seen as an alias to something like the definition above [Source: http://nosql-database.org/]

From my point of view, new kind of software systems make use of new platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter in order to persist their data. And these platforms use this new mechanism to persist data. There are already interesting frameworks, such as CouchDB, Amazon SimpleDB and many others. A list of NoSQL candiates can be found here.

The session also provides some other interesting information:
  • Characteristic of Cloud Computing
  • Public and Private Clouds
  • Grids vs Cloud
At present Cloud computing is the new Hype and Software Engineers must track this topic!!

2 comments:

Prof. Dr. Stefan Edlich said...

Thanks for citing my nosql-database.org website ;-)

It takes a lot of work to keep the archive up to date...

Best
Stefan E.

Markus Demolsky said...

Hi Stefan,

I think nosql-database techniques become more popular and more important in future software architectures, especially in Clouds

best regards
markus