Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage have s recently released a slick infodeck tracing a simple history of databases, as well as a prophecy of the future. They suggests that we've been charged with a decision to either reduce development drag or embrace large scale, which eventually leads to "a world of polyglot persistence."
0 replies - 4476 views - 02/07/12 by Martin Fowler in Articles
Hippo CMS is a Java open source web content management system that enables a true, open and context-aware content strategy. It is targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like, web sites and intranets.
As...
0 replies - 1236 views - 02/02/12 by Judah Johns in Articles
New version DEX graph database 4.4 has been released. DEX 4.4 comes with 2 major novelties:
0 replies - 154 views - 02/01/12 by Damaris Coll in Announcements
I think you have heard me say it before, but in this case I think
repetion is needed: We should be much more innovative in the database
world. And no, I am not talking NoSQL here, not at all. For all the good
things with the NoSQL technologies and the...
2 replies - 3190 views - 01/18/12 by Anders Karlsson in Articles
I've used to be a developer advocate an awesome database product called MarkLogic, a NoSQL Document Database for the Enterprise. Now it's pretty frequent that people ask me about database stuff.
In here I'm going to try to explain some fun stuff you can do...
0 replies - 3490 views - 12/09/11 by Nuno Job in Articles
There is a huge number of books about TDD. Those books usually
concentrate on using test for units of work. Units of work are
understood in many different ways, usually it means a class. So the
books say: write a lot of tests, make code in such a way the...
8 replies - 7679 views - 11/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Pop quiz! Can you answer the following questions off the top of your head? If so, stop reading after the questions and show off your Solr sagacity and your NoSQL...ninjacity...in the combox. Right, so here are the questions:
0 replies - 2190 views - 11/18/11 by David Pell in Articles
We at ScaleBase talk about sharding so much, it’s difficult for us to see why someone wouldn’t want to shard. But just because we’re so enthusiastic about our transparent sharding mechanism, it doesn’t mean we can’t understand the very basic...
3 replies - 2039 views - 11/17/11 by Liran Zelkha in Announcements
If you haven't heard about Flyway, a database migration tool for Java, now's a good time to check it out. The 1.5 version was just released with support for Ant tasks and server credentials from Maven's settings.xml. From the Google Code page: It just...
0 replies - 4039 views - 11/11/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
With Google App engine SDK 1.5.5, Google have introduced Google Cloud SQL for
GAE (Currently we can't connect any other external application with
Google Cloud SQL. This can be only with Google App Engine Apps).
1 replies - 1376 views - 11/07/11 by Chandana in Announcements
Major Upgrade Released Version 2.1.0 of this database design and synchronization software has been released.
The primary new features of this major release include:
0 replies - 1425 views - 08/16/11 by Harnek R in Announcements
This post explains how one could use the search server ElasticSearch as a database. I’m using ElasticSearch as my only data storage system, because for Jetslide
I want to avoid maintenance and development time overhead, which would
be required when using...
0 replies - 3531 views - 07/13/11 by Peter Karich in Articles
A customer noticed sudden and sharp increase in the database disk
consumption. The alarm that went off was the low disk-space monitor.
Apparently the database in question left only a few spare GBs on disk.
The concerned customer opened a ticked asking two...
1 replies - 3567 views - 07/03/11 by Ashod Nakashian in Articles
In a blog post following a recent report by the 451 Group, Matthew Aslett, a senior
analyst for the research firm, defines the term “NewSQL”
as a new breed of SQL database-related products.
0 replies - 4483 views - 07/01/11 by Razi Sharir in News
Everybody knows that using prepared statements for your database
access greatly improves latency times. My point, in this blog post, is
that it can also improve your database scalability. How? Just read on.
4 replies - 6438 views - 05/26/11 by Liran Zelkha in News
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