entaroadun

Movies Recommendation:

• MovieLens - Movie Recommendation Data Sets http://www.grouplens.org/node/73
• Yahoo! - Movie, Music, and Images Ratings Data Sets http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r
• Jester - Movie Ratings Data Sets (Collaborative Filtering Dataset) http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/jester-data/
• Cornell University - Movie-review data for use in sentiment-analysis experiments http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/pabo/movie-review-data/

Music Recommendation:

• Last.fm - Music Recommendation Data Sets http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~ocelma/MusicRecommendationDataset/index.html

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

ilyaigpetrov

Meteor Alternatives Per Feature

This table was created in 2015 so may be quite outdated today.

Feature	Meteor Solution	Alternative Solutions	Description
Live DB Sync	[livequery][lq] ([mongo-oplog]), [ddp]	RethinkDB, Redis, ShareDB, [npm:mongo-oplog], [firebase], etc.	Push DB updates to client/server.
Latency Compensation, Optimistic UI	[minimongo][mm]	[RethinkDB][lcr], [mWater/minimongo] (fork, not ws but http, browserify)	Imitate successful db query on client before it is done.
Isomorphic Code	[isobuild] & isopacks	browserify	Write one code for server/client/mobile.
Isomorphic Packaging	[isobuild], atmosphere		No more separate packages for server & client. Get bower + npm + mobile.