Monotonically increasing key values are bad Posted on May 13, 2011 by BigData Explorer http://ikaisays.com/2011/01/25/app-engine-datastore-tip-monotonically-increasing-values-are-bad/ Advertisements
Papers on NoSQL benchmarking Posted on May 13, 2011 by BigData Explorer http://www.nosqlbenchmarking.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/paper.pdf
Avro MapReduce Example Posted on May 9, 2011 by BigData Explorer https://github.com/rbodkin/avro-mr-sample (by Ron Bodkin)