windycityrails - "comics" is hard

Welcomeben scofield - @bscofield

http://benscofield.comhttp://www.viget.com/extend

http://www.speakerrate.com/bscofieldSaturday, September 12, 2009

http://benscofield.com


http://www.viget.com/extend


http://www.speakerrate.com/speakers/44-ben-scofield


“Comics” Is Hard:On Domains and DatabasesBen Scofield – Viget Labs

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Modeling

flickr: bunchofpants


Biology


Linnean taxonomySaturday, September 12, 2009

AnimaliaChordataMammaliaCarnivoraFelidaePantheratigris

KingdomPhylumClassOrderFamilyGenusSpecies

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AnimaliaChordataMammaliaCarnivoraFelidaePantheratigris

flickr: pandiyan


kingdom phylum class

genus family order

species organism


ProblemThe levels are imaginary



genus family order

species organism

subphylum

superclass subclass

superordersuborder

superfamily

subfamily

subgenus

variety

subspecies



genus family order

species organism

subphylum

superclass subclass

superordersuborder

superfamily

subfamily

subgenus

variety

subspecies

?Saturday, September 12, 2009

taxon taxontaxon species organism

variety

subspecies


Speciesflickr: cpurrin1


Reproductive Isolationflickr: superciliousness


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flickr: niznoz


Numerical taxonomySaturday, September 12, 2009

CladisticsSaturday, September 12, 2009

taxon taxon organismclade


ProblemCladistics is historical and

counter-intuitive


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flickr: goellnitzflickr: pcoin


The ChallengeUnclear, imprecise domain


Comics


publisher title issue


publisher imprint title

issue



issue volume



issue volume

trade



issue volume

tradevariant



issue volume

tradevariant

name



issue

nested set?volume

tradevariant

name

?


publisher

imprint

title

issue

nested set?volume

tradevariant

name

storyline ?!?!Saturday, September 12, 2009

horror

superhero

Martial Arts

noir

Pirate

science fiction

independent

historical

genres?


publisherimprint

title

issue

nested set?volume

tradevariant

name

storyline

genre@#&*!Saturday, September 12, 2009

The ChallengeComplete insanity


databases unite!

#?forben

Alternatives


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




Key-Value


Cassandra*

Tokyo CabinetRedis

Project Voldemort


require "rubygems"require "tokyocabinet" include TokyoCabinet bdb = BDB::new # B-Tree database; keys may have multiple valuesbdb.open("casket.bdb", BDB::OWRITER | BDB::OCREAT) # store records in the database, allowing duplicatesbdb.putdup("key1", "value1")bdb.putdup("key1", "value2")bdb.put("key2", "value3")bdb.put("key3", "value4") # retrieve all valuesp bdb.getlist("key1")# => ["value1", "value2"] # range query, find all matching keysp bdb.range("key1", true, "key3", true)# => ["key1", "key2", "key3"]

http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/13/tokyo-cabinet-beyond-key-value-store/




Biology x

Comics x


Configuration ✓Caching ✓

Translations ✓


Document


{ 'name':'Ben Scofield', 'adjective':'awesomesauce'}

{ 'name':'Magic Pony', 'description':'It is a *lie*!'}


class Question include MongoMapper::Document key :number, Integer, :required => true key :text, String, :required => true many :choicesend

class Choice include MongoMapper::EmbeddedDocument key :text, String, :required => trueend


Biology ✓

Comics x


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


{ ‘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’}


class Question include MongoMapper::Document key :number, Integer, :required => true key :text, String, :required => true many :choicesend

class Choice include MongoMapper::EmbeddedDocument key :text, String, :required => trueend


Graph


Java

AllegroGraphJava / Lisp


http://neotechnology.com/why-neo




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




flickr: 9948354@N08


Biology ✓

Comics ✓


Felidae

001

tigris

Panthera

Panthernae

member

speciesof

Wanda

name

3

age

300

weight

genusof

Animalia

...

subfamilyof

genusof


Felidae

001

tigris

Panthera

Panthernae

member

speciesof

Wanda

name

3

age

300

weight

genusof

Animalia

...

subfamilyof

genusof

010

tigris

species

name

type


Picornaviridae

002

human

rhinovirus A

Rhinovirus

member

speciesof

genusof

Picornavirales

familyof

Group IV

orderof


Picornaviridae

002

human rhinovirus A

Rhinovirus

member

speciesof

genusof

Picornavirales

familyof

Group IV

orderof

Felidae

tigris

Panthera

Panthernae

speciesof

genusof

subfamilyof

genusof

001

member

Carnivora

familyof

Mammalia

orderof

class group


DC

001

DC Universe

titleof

imprintof

titleof

Volume 1

volumeof

Green

Lantern nameof

Sci Fi

genreof

genreof

genreof

002

issueof genreof

Superhero

Issue #2precedes

003

coverof

#1

number


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


Other Options


http://internetmindmap.com/database_software

Column-Oriented





Column-OrientedTemporal





Column-OrientedTemporalConstant





Column-OrientedTemporalConstant

?




I am your databases... combined!flickr: joriel


tagpost

document id

{ 'title':'Post Title' 'content':'Hello!' 'comments':["First!"]}


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{ 'name':'...' 'attr1':'...' 'attr7':'...'}

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flickr: joriel

The power is yours


Thank Youben scofield - @bscofield

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http://www.speakerrate.com/bscofieldSaturday, September 12, 2009







windycityrails - "comics" is hard

Technology

publisher title issue

publisher imprint title

tokyocabinet bdb

issue nested set

valuesp bdb

owriter bdb

taxon clade taxon organism

true key