So I have this little project called NodeDB.  It is a Python powered document oriented database similar in some ways to CouchDB, Amazon Simple DB, or Google BigTables.  It is barely big enough to be considered a project at this point but I believe in releasing early and often.

Today I released the second alpha of version 0.1.0…  How is that for hedging my bets?  This release includes:

• Persistent filesystem storage of nodes
• Logging to standard error
• A running test suite

The next alpha version (slated to release in a couple of weeks) will add the beginnings of an indexing system and configuration files.

You can find my little project in its source code repository or on PyPi.

From Good Math, Bad Math, an article about recent criticism of the MapReduce library.

To explain MapReduce:

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