Tag Archives: NoSQL

MongoDB booster would prefer Cassandra, if only he could store JSON in it. Have I got a data store for you!

November 23, 2012 by dpc Leave a comment
Interesting article at GigaOM interviewing MongoLab Founder and CEO Will Shulman. GigaOM reports: MongoLab operates under a thesis that MongoDB is pulling away as the world’s most-popular NoSQL database not because it scales the best — it does scale, Shulman said, but he’d actually choose Cassandra if he … Continue reading »
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NoSQL is apparently NOT going to deliver World Peace

July 17, 2012 by dpc Leave a comment
Peter Wayner at InfoWorld has articulated “Seven Hard Truths” about NoSQL technologies. Among them: It’s nice to have JOINs; NoSQL has none. It’s nice to have transactions After 30 years of development, it seems that SQL Databases have some solid features, like the query analyzer. NoSQL is like … Continue reading »
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Sauce Labs explains its move from NoSQL CouchDB to old-skool MySQL

July 3, 2012 by dpc Leave a comment
Sauce Labs has rendered a valuable service to the community by documenting the factors that went into a decision to change infrastructure – to replace CouchDB with MySQL. Originally the company had committed  to CouchDB, which is a novel NoSQL store originating from a team out of MIT. … Continue reading »
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Why do I believe Hadoop is not yet ready for Prime Time?

June 28, 2012 by dpc Leave a comment
I am bullish on Hadoop and other NoSQL technologies. Long-term I believe they will be instrumental in providing quantum leaps in efficiency for existing businesses. But even more, I believe that mainstream BigData will open up brand new opportunities that were simply unavailable before. Right now we focus … Continue reading »
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Is Amazon DynamoDB the look of the future?

May 21, 2012 by dpc 1 Comment
Amazon is now offering a key/value data store that relies on Solid state disc for storage. DynamoDB is the name, and it is intended to complement S3 as a lower-latency store. It’s higher cost, but offers better performance for those customers that need it. Two things on this. … Continue reading »
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