WindyCityRails - "Comics" Is Hard

“Comics” Is Hard: On Domains and Databases Ben Scoﬁeld – Viget Labs Saturday, September 12, 2009

Modeling ﬂickr: bunchofpants Saturday, September 12, 2009

Biology Saturday, September 12, 2009

Linnean taxonomy Saturday, September 12, 2009

Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Felidae Genus Panthera Species tigris ﬂickr: pandiyan Saturday, September 12, 2009

Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felidae Panthera tigris ﬂickr: pandiyan Saturday, September 12, 2009

kingdom phylum class genus family order species organism Saturday, September 12, 2009

Problem The levels are imaginary Saturday, September 12, 2009

subphylum kingdom phylum class superclass subclass subfamily suborder superorder genus family order subgenus superfamily subspecies species organism variety Saturday, September 12, 2009

subphylum kingdom phylum class ? superclass subclass subfamily suborder superorder genus family order subgenus superfamily subspecies species organism variety Saturday, September 12, 2009

subspecies taxon taxon taxon species organism variety Saturday, September 12, 2009

Species ﬂickr: cpurrin1 Saturday, September 12, 2009

Reproductive Isolation ﬂickr: superciliousness Saturday, September 12, 2009

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ﬂickr: chiotsrun Saturday, September 12, 2009

ﬂickr: niznoz Saturday, September 12, 2009

Numerical taxonomy Saturday, September 12, 2009

Cladistics Saturday, September 12, 2009

taxon clade taxon organism Saturday, September 12, 2009

Problem Cladistics is historical and counter-intuitive Saturday, September 12, 2009

ﬂickr: goellnitz Saturday, September 12, 2009

ﬂickr: goellnitz pcoin Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Challenge Unclear, imprecise domain Saturday, September 12, 2009

Comics Saturday, September 12, 2009

publisher title issue Saturday, September 12, 2009

publisher imprint title issue Saturday, September 12, 2009

publisher imprint title issue volume Saturday, September 12, 2009

publisher imprint title issue volume trade Saturday, September 12, 2009

publisher imprint title issue volume variant trade Saturday, September 12, 2009

name publisher imprint title issue volume variant trade Saturday, September 12, 2009

name publisher imprint title ? issue nested set? volume variant trade Saturday, September 12, 2009

imprint ?!?! publisher title name issue storyline volume nested set? variant trade Saturday, September 12, 2009

science fiction noir horror independent Martial Arts genres? historical Pirate superhero Saturday, September 12, 2009

imprint publisher @#&*! title name genre issue volume nested set? storyline variant trade Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Challenge Complete insanity Saturday, September 12, 2009

Alternatives databases unite! #?forben Saturday, September 12, 2009

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/02/just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you-should/ Saturday, September 12, 2009

Key-Value Saturday, September 12, 2009

Redis Tokyo Cabinet Project Voldemort Cassandra* Saturday, September 12, 2009

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/ Saturday, September 12, 2009

Biology x Comics x Saturday, September 12, 2009

Conﬁguration ✓ Caching ✓ Translations ✓ Saturday, September 12, 2009

Document Saturday, September 12, 2009

{ 'name':'Ben Scofield', 'adjective':'awesomesauce' } { 'name':'Magic Pony', 'description':'It is a *lie*!' } Saturday, September 12, 2009

class Question include MongoMapper::Document key :number, Integer, :required => true key :text, String, :required => true many :choices end class Choice include MongoMapper::EmbeddedDocument key :text, String, :required => true end Saturday, September 12, 2009

Biology ✓ Comics x Saturday, September 12, 2009

{ ‘kingdom’:‘Animalia’, ‘phylum’:‘Chordata’, ‘subphylum’:‘Vertebrata’, ‘class’:‘Mammalia’, ‘subclass’:‘Eutheria’, ‘order’:‘Carnivora’, ‘family’:‘Felidae’, ‘subfamily’:‘Panthernae’, ‘genus’:‘Pantera’, ‘species’:‘tigris’, ‘name’:‘Wanda’ } Saturday, September 12, 2009

{ ‘kingdom’:‘Animalia’, ‘subkingdom’:‘Eumetazoa’, ‘phylum’:‘Chordata’, ‘subphylum’:‘Vertebrata’, ‘class’:‘Mammalia’, ‘subclass’:‘Theria’, ‘order’:‘Carnivora’, ‘suborder’: ‘Caniformia’, ‘family’:‘Canidae’, ‘subfamily’:‘Caninae’, ‘tribe’:‘Canini’, ‘genus’:‘Canis’, ‘species’:‘lupus’, ‘subspecies’:‘familiaris’, ‘name’:‘Daisy’ } Saturday, September 12, 2009

class Question include MongoMapper::Document key :number, Integer, :required => true key :text, String, :required => true many :choices end class Choice include MongoMapper::EmbeddedDocument key :text, String, :required => true end Saturday, September 12, 2009

Graph Saturday, September 12, 2009

AllegroGraph Java Java / Lisp Saturday, September 12, 2009

http://neotechnology.com/why-neo Saturday, September 12, 2009

http://markorodriguez.com/Lectures_ﬁles/risk-symposium2009.pdf Saturday, September 12, 2009

ﬂickr: 9948354@N08 Saturday, September 12, 2009

Biology ✓ Comics ✓ Saturday, September 12, 2009

Animalia ... Felidae subfamilyof genusof Panthernae genusof Panthera speciesof tigris member 001 age name weight 3 Wanda 300 Saturday, September 12, 2009

Animalia ... Felidae subfamilyof genusof Panthernae genusof Panthera species speciesof type tigris 010 name tigris member 001 age name weight 3 Wanda 300 Saturday, September 12, 2009

Group IV orderof Picornavirales familyof Picornaviridae genusof Rhinovirus speciesof human rhinovirus A member 002 Saturday, September 12, 2009

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 Saturday, September 12, 2009

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 Saturday, September 12, 2009

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 Saturday, September 12, 2009

Other Options Saturday, September 12, 2009

Column-Oriented http://internetmindmap.com/database_software Saturday, September 12, 2009

Column-Oriented Temporal http://internetmindmap.com/database_software Saturday, September 12, 2009

Column-Oriented Temporal Constant http://internetmindmap.com/database_software Saturday, September 12, 2009

Column-Oriented Temporal Constant ? http://internetmindmap.com/database_software Saturday, September 12, 2009

Polyglot Persistence Saturday, September 12, 2009

I am your databases... combined! ﬂickr: joriel Saturday, September 12, 2009

post tag document id { 'title':'Post Title' 'content':'Hello!' 'comments':["First!"] } Saturday, September 12, 2009

{ 'name':'...' 'attr1':'...' 'attr7':'...' } Saturday, September 12, 2009

The power is yours ﬂickr: joriel Saturday, September 12, 2009

Thank You ben scofield - @bscofield http://benscofield.com http://www.viget.com/extend http://www.speakerrate.com/bscofield Saturday, September 12, 2009

WindyCityRails - "Comics" Is Hard

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