Jason Bloomberg reported, “Perhaps the best part of speaking at Dataversity’s NoSQL Now conference is the opportunity to channel my inner geek. This show brings out the most hardcore data geeks Silicon Valley has to offer, after all, and that’s triple-X hardcore when it comes to data geekdom. My inner geek, however, never goes anywhere without wearing his architect’s hat. Good thing, too, because the challenge with such heavily technical shows is understanding how all this great new gear fits into the big picture of helping enterprises achieve broad-based agility goals.
My architect’s hat perked up during a talk by Nathan Mars, creator of real time Big Data analytics platform Storm. In his talk he called upon the audience to embrace immutability. Forego all DELETEs and UPDATEs on your data. All you get are INSERTs and SELECTs. Furthermore, keep track of which queries generated which data. As a result, you’ve protected yourself from data corruption, because you can always go back in the permanent record to recompute any given result properly.”
Read the entire article at http://www.dataversity.net/immutability-data/.
