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by Angela Guess Doug Henschen of Information Week reports, “Developing an integrated customer view has been on the wish list at insurance giant MetLife for at least 10 years, but it recently took a fresh approach to the challenge by choosing a NoSQL database as the platform for bringing together data from more than...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports, “10gen, the creator and proprietor of the extremely popular MongoDB NoSQL database, is growing up fast and on Tuesday announced it has hired Sydney Carey as the company’s first-ever chief financial officer. Carey comes from enterprise software company Tibco where she was executive vice president and...
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by Angela Guess Klint Finley of Wired reports, “MongoDB may be the most popular NoSQL database out there. Demand for the open source database is growing faster than every job skill other than HTML5, according to job search site Indeed.com… Part of the attraction is that it’s open source, meaning the software code behind it...
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by Angela Guess 10gen offers a resource on their website that compares NoSQL features to those of SQL databases. The description of the feature by feature comparison states, “Relational, or SQL, databases were developed in the 1970s to deal with that era’s data storage challenges and environment. But with the growth of the web,...
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by Angela Guess Dwight Merriman, CEO of 10gen recently discussed several common misconceptions about NoSQL technology. He writes, “We’re several years into the rise of NoSQL, and yet common misconceptions persist about the movement. As spotlighted by 451 Research, NoSQL job demand is booming, and ranks second only to HTML5 among Indeed.com’s hottest job trends. Yet some continue...
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by Angela Guess 10gen is looking for a Director of Product Management in Palo Alto, CA. According to the post, “You will be responsible for the MongoDB product roadmap. In collaboration with engineering, you’ll define upcoming releases and communicate to audiences both inside and outside the company.” Responsibilities include the following: “Evangelize and advocate...
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by Angela Guess According to Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica, “10gen, the company behind the MongoDB open-source ‘NoSQL’ database, has teamed with EdX—the free online education collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and the University of California Berkeley—to bring MongoDB training to the Web and to accelerate the release of EdX’s online learning platform as open source....
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by Angela Guess Klint Finley of TechCrunch reports that “10gen, the sponsor company of the open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announced undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm that invests in technologies deemed beneficial to the U.S. intelligence community. The typical investment from In-Q-Tel is rumored to be between $1 million and...
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by Angela Guess 10Gen reports that the company “will be sponsoring the second annual NoSQL Now!, from August 21st through the 23rd in San Jose, California. The goal of the educational conference is to ‘describe the diversity of NoSQL technologies available to all organizations to address their business needs, and to offer objective evaluation processes...
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by Angela Guess Matt Asay has written a piece for Wired regarding the rise of NoSQL. He writes, “In Silicon Valley and beyond, a new kind of database is rising. Dubbed NoSQL by its proponents, it sprang out of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other web giants, who used it to run their massive online...
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