NoSQL Posts

MongoDB is one of dozens of NoSQL databases that are gradually taking over for relational databases as big data enters the world of business. Relational… Continue Reading

If you're taking on big data, you'll quickly realize that that means taking on a lot of unstructured data. Unstructured data doesn't fit into a typical… Continue Reading

When open source NoSQL databases were first being developed, there was mostly a strong desire to know if they would succeed with this model of developing… Continue Reading

Perhaps the most compelling argument for the mass adoption of NoSQL is the general lack of buzz. Not that nobody's writing about it or talking about it,… Continue Reading

To read the blogs and news posts, you would assume that all businesses have already successfully migrated to the cloud, and if yours has not you are behind… Continue Reading

Don't you just love a heated debate among tech geeks? Along with arguments over the rightful place of cloud computing, the merits and risks of BYOD, and… Continue Reading

In-memory processing has started to become the norm in large-scale data handling. This is aclose to the metal analysis of highly important but often neglected… Continue Reading

Along with all of the media and blogging buzz about big data, NoSQL databases have crept into the headlines. Many proponents of big data are adamant that… Continue Reading

While almost 70 percent of all companies are using big data, less than 30 percent are getting all of the goodies that's possible out of it. A number of… Continue Reading

For several decades, SQL (Structured Query Language) has been the most used programming language for managing databases. SQL is a relational database… Continue Reading

We all know Cassandra is supposed to scale but what is its exact scaling pattern? How much faster does it get if you add an extra node? Is it truly linear?… Continue Reading

This presentation was made during the Couchbase London Meetup. Our Product Manager, Alex made a performance benchmark on Couchbase which shows sub-millisecond… Continue Reading