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by Angela Guess InfoWorld has shared its 2013 Technology of the Year award winners, and among the victors is Neo4j. The article states, “When you think of NoSQL, you may think of a nontransactional, nonrelational database. Graph databases like Neo4j are a bit of an odd man out in this category. When your data is structured...
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by Angela Guess Couchbase Server 2.0 was released last month, and now the people at Couchbase are offering a free webinar on January 22 introducing the latest updates. According to the company, “Couchbase Server 2.0 is here! Couchbase Server 2.0 is a document database that includes JSON support, indexing and querying capabilities, and cross...
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by Angela Guess According to a recent release out of the company, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v1.2, the latest version of the highly-scalable, fault-tolerant, Big Data distributed database. Successfully handling thousands of requests per second,...
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by Angela Guess Gregory Mone has written an insightful look beyond Hadoop for the Communications of the ACM magazine. Mone begins, “Pandora will not discuss exactly how much data it churns through daily, but head of playlist engineering Eric Bieschke says the company has at least 20 billion thumb ratings. Once every 24 hours,...
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by Angela Guess Barbara Quint of Information Today reports, “Over the next 2 years, Dow Jones, a subsidiary of News Corp. (www.newscorp.com), will be moving the bulk of its online content to the NoSQL software platform of MarkLogic Corp. Factiva will be the first of three services on the Dow Jones digital network to shift; the others—WSJ.com and...
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by Angela Guess Chris Talbot of Talkin’ Cloud reports, “Cloud-based database provider Cloudant has launched its NoSQL database-as-a-service on Rackspace Hosting‘s (NYSE: RAX) open cloud platform. The DBaaS for web and mobile applications is now available across the open cloud as part of the Rackspace Cloud Tools program. Cloudant was formed by three MIT physicists and launched...
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by Angela Guess Oracle has announced the release of version 2.0 of the company’s NoSQL database: “Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 adds efficient support for storage and retrieval of large objects such as documents and images, as well as dynamic elasticity and automatic rebalancing for allocating storage and compute resources in response to changing production...
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by Angela Guess Doug Henschen of InformationWeek recently reported that Couchbase has announced “the general availability of Couchbase Server 2.0, a significant upgrade aimed at bringing document-handling capabilities to a popular NoSQL database. Couchbase is an open-source, key value store database used mostly by Internet companies and gaming firms for its rapid scalability, reliability...
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by Angela Guess According to a recent article by Sophie Curtis of Computer World, “10gen, the company behind popular NoSQL database MongoDB, has announced new courses and dates for its free online MongoDB education programme, in an attempt to steal more developers away from Oracle. Winter 2013 classes include ‘MongoDB for Developers,’ taught by...
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by Angela Guess Klint Finley of Wired reports, “Most students of the web trace the NoSQL movement back to Google and Amazon. As they grew their enormously successful online services, Google and Amazon needed new ways of storing massive amounts of data across an ever-growing number of servers, so each created a new software...
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