"Comics" Is Hard: Alternative Databases

“Comics” Is Hard: Alternative Databases Ben Scoﬁeld – Viget Labs 1

Modeling ﬂickr: bunchofpants 2

Biology 3

Linnean taxonomy 4

Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Felidae Genus Panthera Species tigris ﬂickr: pandiyan 5

Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felidae Panthera tigris ﬂickr: pandiyan 5

kingdom phylum class genus family order species organism 6

Problem The levels are imaginary 7

subphylum kingdom phylum class superclass subclass subfamily suborder superorder genus family order subgenus superfamily subspecies species organism variety 8

subphylum kingdom phylum class ? superclass subclass subfamily suborder superorder genus family order subgenus superfamily subspecies species organism variety 8

subspecies taxon taxon taxon species organism variety 9

Species ﬂickr: cpurrin1 10

Reproductive Isolation ﬂickr: superciliousness 11

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ﬂickr: niznoz 14

Numerical taxonomy 15

Cladistics 16

taxon clade taxon organism 17

Problem Cladistics is historical and counter-intuitive 18

ﬂickr: goellnitz 19

ﬂickr: goellnitz pcoin 19

The Challenge Unclear, imprecise domain 20

comics 21

publisher title issue 22

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publisher imprint title issue volume trade 30

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publisher imprint title issue volume variant trade 34

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name publisher imprint title issue volume variant trade 37

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name publisher imprint title ? issue nested set? volume variant trade 40

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imprint ?!?! publisher title name issue storyline volume nested set? variant trade 43

science fiction noir horror genres? independent Martial Arts historical Pirate superhero 44

imprint publisher @#&*! title name genre issue volume nested set? storyline variant trade 45

The Challenge Complete insanity 46

Alternatives databases unite! #?forben ﬂickr: ikhnaton2 47

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/02/just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you-should/ 48

Key-Value 49

Redis Tokyo Cabinet Project Voldemort Cassandra* 50

require "rubygems" require "tokyocabinet" include TokyoCabinet bdb = BDB::new # B-Tree database; keys may have multiple values bdb.open("casket.bdb", BDB::OWRITER | BDB::OCREAT) # store records in the database, allowing duplicates bdb.putdup("key1", "value1") bdb.putdup("key1", "value2") bdb.put("key2", "value3") bdb.put("key3", "value4") # retrieve all values p bdb.getlist("key1") # => ["value1", "value2"] # range query, find all matching keys p bdb.range("key1", true, "key3", true) # => ["key1", "key2", "key3"] http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/13/tokyo-cabinet-beyond-key-value-store/ 51

Biology x Comics x 52

Conﬁguration ✓ Caching ✓ Translations ✓ 53

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Document 55

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{ 'name':'Ben Scofield', 'adjective':'awesomesauce' } { 'name':'Magic Pony', 'description':'It is a *lie*!' } 57

Biology ✓ Comics x 58

{ 'kingdom':'Animalia', ‘phylum’:‘Chordata’, ‘subphylum’:‘Vertebrata’, ‘class’:‘Mammalia’, ‘subclass’:‘Eutheria’, ‘order’:‘Carnivora’, ‘family’:‘Felidae’, ‘subfamily’:‘Panthernae’, ‘genus’:‘Pantera’, ‘species’:‘tigris’, ‘name’:‘Wanda’ } 59

Graph 60

AllegroGraph Java Java / Lisp 61

http://neotechnology.com/why-neo 62

http://markorodriguez.com/Lectures_ﬁles/risk-symposium2009.pdf 63

ﬂickr: 9948354@N08 64

Biology ✓ Comics ✓ 65

Animalia ... Felidae subfamilyof genusof Panthernae genusof Panthera speciesof tigris member 001 age name weight 3 Wanda 300 66

Animalia ... Felidae subfamilyof genusof Panthernae genusof Panthera species speciesof type tigris 010 name tigris member 001 age name weight 3 Wanda 300 66

Group IV orderof Picornavirales familyof Picornaviridae genusof Rhinovirus speciesof human rhinovirus A member 002 67

class Mammalia Group IV group orderof orderof Carnivora Picornavirales familyof familyof Felidae Picornaviridae subfamilyof Panthernae genusof genusof genusof Panthera Rhinovirus speciesof speciesof human tigris rhinovirus A member member 001 002 68

DC imprintof titleof DC Universe Green titleof 001 Lantern nameof genreof volumeof genreof Volume 1 Sci Fi Superhero genreof issueof genreof 002 precedes Issue #2 number coverof #1 003 69

require 'neo4j' Neo4j::Transaction.run do dc = Neo4j::Node.new dc[:name] = 'DC' dc_universe = Neo4j::Node.new dc_universe[:name] = 'DC Universe' dc.relationships.outgoing(:imprints) << dc_universe rel = dc.relationships.outgoing(:imprints).first rel[:started] = 1980 vol1 = Neo4j::Node.new vol1[:started] = 1941 vol1[:ended] = 1949 vol1[:name] = 'Green Lantern' dc.relationships.outgoing(:titles) << vol1 dc_universe.relationships.outgoing(:titles) << vol1 # ... end 70

Hybrid Solutions ﬂickr: joriel 71

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post tag document id { 'title':'Post Title' 'content':'Hello!' 'comments':["First!"] } 73

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search user accounts and whatnot { 'name':'...' 'attr1':'...' 'attr7':'...' } 75

Thank You ben scofield - @bscofield http://benscofield.com http://www.viget.com/extend http://www.speakerrate.com/bscofield 76

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