01: Damien Katz, creator of CouchDB, is starting to work on a new message queue project based on the work he has done on Couchbase Database Change Protocol and using Couchbase ForestDB as durable storage. ★

It’s an interesting time for message queues. Yesterday, a team from LinkedIn announced forming a start-up around Kafka.

After leaving Couchbase, Damien Katz has spent some time at Salesforce, but it looks like he’s more of a start-up person.

02: A reusable library for using Spark with HBase. ★

03: TIL: Joyent is using the Apache ZooKeeper-based Manatee for managing PostgreSQL replication and automatic failover. They also built a key-value service on top of PostgreSQL. ★

Original title and link: NoSQL databases, Hadoop, Big Data: Pinned tabs Nov.7th (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)