kvdr

I had gone through a survey course while in grad school a few years ago. Riak, HBase, CouchDB were the shiny new things. I kinda lost track of things after school, but want to check back in again on what is the latest.

What is the current state of art? Is there a book that I can read up on this or better yet, some academic course/offering that covers this? Mostly looking for what design decisions/algorithms/data structures used by the databases. Is the Klepmann book (DDIA) slightly out of date now or still very much relevant?

Thank you!!

Dear HNers.

I am looking to register a domain name for my personal website. Nothing fancy with respect to content; maybe just a personal blog, my amateur photographs and details about research and hobby projects. But being so late into the game, I cannot find any suitable domain name with just my first name or even first name plus last name initial with the common TLDs. Is it okay to get one of those new two letter TLDs like .ws or .at or are they looked down upon? My name plus last name is available with a .com TLD but I don't have a usual western name so it would be tough to remember with the correct spelling though it would be just ten characters hence I want to get just my first name. Plus I don't like .com for a personal page.

Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks.