Everything Goes Better With Bacon

Contributed by Nick Quinn, Senior Software Developer, InfiniteGraph Email: nquinn@objectivity.com   Whenever someone considers a large movie database like Internet Movie Database, or IMDB, inevitably the classic six degrees of Kevin Bacon problem comes up.  It is a famous problem posed like this, “…any individual involved in the Hollywood, California film industry can be linked [...]

Real-time relationship analytics from large-scale graph processing

Cassandra excels at storing large, active, decentralized datasets. Additionally, Cassandra’s rich data model allows efficient use for many applications beyond simple associative arrays. One interesting application is the processing of large-scale graph structures.