What should I do as the next step for the DynamoDB project. I have not yet been able to install Gora but meanwhile what other stuff should I read? Any newbie links for NoSQL databases? I am still exploring so whatever I find interesting, I will apply to all those places. That's why my comment on Nutch.
-- thanks and regards, Apurv Verma B. Tech.(CSE) IIT- Ropar On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Apruv, > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Apurv Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am a final year undergraduate Computer Science student from IIT Ropar, > > India. I am interested in working on the project "create a > > *gora-dynamodb* datastore > > for Gora". > > Great. We're always happy to hear that people are interested in Gora. The > student application deadline in the 6th of April IIRC. I'm sure you've > checked out the GSoC documentation as you expressed your interest over in > Nutch, however if not then I would check it out and think about what it > sufficient to get working on this project. > > > > > I am not familiar with any NoSQL databases but I have always > > wanted to learn them. If I am given a chance I would work hard over this > > summer and complete this project. > > As far as my background is concerned, I have excellent Java > implementation > > skills and I am a beginner level user of Hadoop, Hama and Zookeeper. I > have > > contributed a couple of patches to Hama in the last two months. But I > have > > never worked with any NoSQL databases. It would take time and effort for > me > > to do lots and lots of readings over the summer to complete this project. > > But since this is interesting and I have nothing else to do over the > > summer, this would be a challenging opportunity for me. > > > > This is exactly what GSoC's about... right? > > > > > > > I pulled out the latest gora-trunk after the build became stable. And > tried > > to maven install but it hangs up with this line as the last. > > > > OK so this is another issue entirely, I think we need to take this to a > different thread altogether. > > Thanks again for getting in touch. Lets keep the correspondence here for > now. > > Lewis >
