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Heroku Rolls out Support for JavaScript within PostGres

June 5, 2013

Business

google, Heroku, JavaScript, JSON, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Relational database, SQL

There’s always battles waging in the technology community – Linux vs Windows, OpenStack vs AWS, DevOps vs NoOps vs SomeOtherKindOfOps. Another oft visited argument is the relation versus non-relational databases. Essentially the protagonists for the NoSQL movement suggest that…

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MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

March 28, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Data definition language, Gangnam Style, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, oracle, Relational database

Recently Oracle released it’s first update to MySQL in two years. This release was, at least in part, a response to the huge uptake of NoSQL databases and the move away from traditional structured databases for many applications. I…

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Garantia Goes GA

February 13, 2013

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Heroku, NoSQL, Persistent data structure, Redis, Redis Cloud, US West

I’ve written before about Garantia, the Israeli startup that is aiming to overcome some of the disadvantages that NoSQL databases come with – namely lack of persistence and scalability. Garantia’s solution is to offer Memcached with higher reliability and…

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Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

June 21, 2012

Business

Database, Facebook, Garantia, Memcached, NoSQL, Redis

Note – this is (kind of) a repost – I was asked by Garantia’s PR company to pull an earlier post and publish this as the company gets ready to demo at Structure – that’s a highly unusual request…

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Survey Shows Increased Adoption of NoSQL

February 8, 2012

Business

CouchBase, Database, Database management system, NoSQL, Relational database, SQL

One of the more striking developments in the application database space in recent years has been the rise of unstructured databases. Aggregated under the heading “NoSQL” (not an ideal name it must be said), these unstructured database management systems…

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NoSQL Search with Cloudant

July 28, 2011

Business

Cloudant, CouchDB, Java, Lucene, MapReduce, NoSQL, Web search query

In the seemingly endless argument between the relational database proponents and those on the NoSQL side of the divide, the usual vectors of discussion occur around speed, availability, operational constrains and budget. One area that sometimes gets forgotten is…

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MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups

February 11, 2011

Business

Boomi, cloud computing, Heroku, iaas, John Taschek, Membase, NorthScale, NoSQL, PaaS, strategy

Focus.com Cloud RoundtableLast week marked the merger between Membase (formerly NorthScale) and CouchOne, associated companies producing NoSQL products. It’s a logical combination as it creates an end-to-end NoSQL solution. But more than that it’s an indication of something I’ve…

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Blog Archives

Heroku Rolls out Support for JavaScript within PostGres

MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

Garantia Goes GA

Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

Survey Shows Increased Adoption of NoSQL

NoSQL Search with Cloudant

MemBase and CouchOne and What it Means for Cloud Sartups