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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 Thumbtack Technology has released a new report on NoSQL databases: “In conjunction with the report published a few months ago entitled Ultra-High Performance NoSQL Benchmarking: Analyzing Durability and Performance Tradeoffs Thumbtack’s latest study focuses on how NoSQL databases perform during hardware failures. The new report, entitled NoSQL Failover Characteristics: Aerospike, Cassandra,...
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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 Rick Grehan of InfoWorld recently compared MongoDB and Couchbase head-to-head. He writes, “Document databases may be the most popular NoSQL database variant of them all. Their great flexibility — schemas can be grown or changed with remarkable ease — makes them suitable for a wide range of applications, and their object...
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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 A new article on GeekZone reports that “Rackspace Hosting has entered into an agreement to acquire ObjectRocket, a MongoDB database as a service (DBaaS) provider. With ObjectRocket’s open source-based MongoDB solution, Rackspace will broaden its OpenStack-based open cloud platform to offer customers a NoSQL DBaaS. The ObjectRocket offering also immediately expands Rackspace’s...
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by Angela Guess Robert Diana of DZone recently shared NoSQL job trends for the month of February. He writes, “For the NoSQL job trends, I am continuing to focus on Cassandra, Redis, Voldemort, SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, and Riak. As was stated previously, Hadoop continues to be the clear leader in demand and still flattens the trends of other solutions. However, the gap is steadily...
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by Angela Guess Slava Akhmechet of the RethinkDB blog recently provided a comparison between RethinkDB’s NoSQL solution and MongoDB’s: “Many people have been asking how RethinkDB differs from MongoDB and other NoSQL systems. Our first attempt to address these questions is a high level technical overview comparing RethinkDB with MongoDB. However, the overview is meant to...
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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 MongoDB recently announced MongoClient: “Today we are releasing updated versions of most of the officially supported MongoDB drivers with new error checking and reporting defaults… Over the past several years, it’s become evident that MongoDB’s previous default behavior (where write messages did not wait for a return code from the server...
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