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The Beautiful Marriage of MongoDB and Redis

I am on the record as being a MongoDB fan, admirer, and devotee. I never...

0 replies - 17115 views - 01/09/12 by Cody Powell in Articles

Rescue 911: Stories from the MongoDB Trenches

This was a live blog from a MongoSV session.  Here’s a link to the entire series of posts. These are cautionary tales, but also an opportunity for...

0 replies - 3869 views - 01/08/12 by Mike Dirolf in Articles

MongoDB Schema Design by Example

This was a live-blog from a MongoSV session. Here’s a link to the entire series of posts. Kyle’s strategy is to start with a normalized representation...

0 replies - 9053 views - 01/07/12 by Mike Dirolf in Articles

Creating a DSL for Cypher graph queries

My first assignment at Neo4j was to create a Java DSL for the Cypher query language, that is used to access data from the Neo4j database in a graphy...

1 replies - 3815 views - 01/07/12 by Rickard Oberg in Articles

The Future of CouchDB and Couchbase Server

“What’s the future of CouchDB? It’s Couchbase.” —Damien Katz“The future of CouchDB is CouchDB.” —Noah Slater First of all, don’t panic. The...

1 replies - 4224 views - 01/06/12 by Bradley Holt in News

Architecture > Code

Steve Py asks an interesting question in one of the comments to my On Infinite Scalability post: Can you elaborate more on: "Note, those changes...

2 replies - 3482 views - 01/06/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Running along the graph using Neo4J Spatial and Gephi

When I started running some years ago, I bought a Garmin Forerunner 405. It’s a nifty little device that tracks GPS coordinates while you are running....

0 replies - 5549 views - 01/05/12 by Davy Suvee in Articles

DZone's Top Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area.  These were chosen based popularity and quality of content.  If you...

1 replies - 11279 views - 01/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

MongoDB's Write Lock Performance: 1.8 vs. 2.0

MongoDB, as some of you may know, has a process-wide write lock. This has caused some degree of ridicule from database purists when they discover such a...

2 replies - 7868 views - 01/04/12 by Rick Copeland in Articles

Why NoSQL is Not Just For Google and Amazon

In fact, for over 30 years or so, the Database Wars have been settled, the relational databases have won the fight, and the decision left was which ...

4 replies - 8850 views - 01/04/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

On the Subject of NoSQL (and a bit about graph databases)

The major point of many of Martin Fowler's blog posts, repeated in his book, is that NoSQL represents a movement away from integrating on the database and...

0 replies - 1737 views - 01/04/12 by Chris Travers in Articles

Data Structure for Social News Streams on Graph Databases

Ok you guys did not hear much from me most recently. I was on vaccation and then on summer school and I worked on my first scientific poster and on a talk...

1 replies - 5150 views - 01/03/12 by René Pickhardt in Articles

Pig / Cassandra: binary operator expected

If you are trying to run Pig on Cassandra and you encounter: "binary operator expected"You are most likely running pig_cassandra against the latest...

0 replies - 3616 views - 01/01/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Apache Whirr 0.7 Arrives with Support for Puppet, Chef, Mahout, and Ganglia

Apache Whirr version 0.7.0 has just been released with some nice new support features for DevOps folks and Machine Learning buffs.  The release also fixed 50...

0 replies - 5574 views - 12/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

BSON and Data Interchange

There’s a lot of good things about JSON — it’s a standards based, language independent, representation of object-like data. Also, it’s easy to...

1 replies - 5913 views - 12/29/11 by Francesca Krihely in Articles