Eric Genesky02/22/12
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The *truth* behind the supposed opaqueness of unstructured data lies in the fact that there is a complete lack of tools to discover/analyze the structure of that data . . .
Eric Genesky02/21/12
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One user has claimed that Amazon's NoSQL service, DynamoDB, is filled with holes for the ruby client to fall into. He reveals six problems, and I suggest that this may be an opportunity for a similar service out there to provide a better user experience for ruby devs.
Nuno Job02/21/12
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How would YOU engineer a database for unstructured data. Nunojob introduces MarkLogic's method, and presents a video of a talk he gave on this subject in Berlin.
Eric Genesky02/21/12
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The main objective of the Neo4j Challenge is to create a Heroku-ready template using Neo4j, which this developer did by making NeoQuotes, which he wrote using JRuby.
Daniel Gottlieb02/20/12
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This is a summary of a presentation by Mathias Stearn, who explained in some detail the structure of the files in data/db, as well as some questions from the audience at 10gen's MongoSV conference.
Eric Genesky02/20/12
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From a recent post by Alex Popescu on the MyNoSQL blog: "Why are there only some NoSQL databases present in managed hosting offers?" Read more and provide your answer to this question.
Anders Karlsson02/20/12
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This post on database consistency points out the terminology differences among databases. For this author, the NoSQL folks "will confuse things by allowing you not to have even read consistency."
Rob Williams02/20/12
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I've been doing some coding with Neo4J and one thing is for sure: being able to write seriously sophisticated code that has a large, complex model underneath it, from inside unit tests that run in a few milliseconds is priceless. There are still a couple of challenges to consider, but the reality is with a simple custom rule (using JUnit 4), you can have an embedded database that will be ready for each test, and cleaned up after each one. But is there really a need to use the container from the start?
Micheal Shallop02/19/12
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This writer found that mongodb was really fast at returning data, but that querying the collection was taking just a few more seconds than was comfortable. He offers a step by step analysis of the problem and solution with code to boot.
Kristina Chodorow02/19/12
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This post provides a link to the source code of the MongoDB binaries, which do not come with mongobridge. The author then offers some "funky networking tricks" that should NEVER be tried in production.
Romiko Derbynew02/18/12
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This post considers a few different Azure problems that arise in various scenarios, followed by some suggested solutions. This includes useful screenshots and code.
Jeff Dickey02/17/12
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This post likens Redis to memcaches like mysql, although the writer points out that redis is NOT a cache either. Instead, he defines redis as a "data structure server."
Ayende Rahien02/17/12
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This RavenDB how-to walks the reader through Boosting: a way to give documents or attributes in a document weight. According to the writer, "this is really one of those things that brings up the polish in the system, the things that makes the users sit up and take notice."
Max De Marzi02/16/12
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Max De Marzi introduces a new tool made by Minko Nasato called graphipedia that is written in Java. De Marzi gives non-Java readers a step-by-step process with code examples.
Bradley Holt02/16/12
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This post suggests that domain-driven design is well-served by CouchDB because it fits with a couple building blocks of DDD: Entities and Value Objects. The author looks at an example Aggregate.
Dhananjay Kumar02/16/12
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To get MongoDB up an running in windows, you should download the 64 bit binaries at the link in this post. From there, debug_mode writes a step-by-step, illustrated process for installing MongoDB.
René Pickhardt02/15/12
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Rene Pickhardt is very pleased with the results of his work on a social news stream that uses Neo4j, GWT, and Tomcat. In this article he'll provide a demo of the application, some points about the results of his development, and a comparison to what would have happened had he used MySQL instead.
Matt Insler02/15/12
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While working on Google's Protocol Buffers, Matt Insler thought "Why not mimic the functionality and ease of use of the Protocol Buffers with MongoDB?" This led him to design the GuiceyData Generator, a quick and easy way to specify strongly typed data structures to be stored in a MongoDB database and mapped to wrappers and builders in Java.
Eric Genesky02/15/12
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An interview with one of Tumblr's Distributed System Engineers suggests that once-small startup has learned to adopt some surprising development and operational strategies since 2007.
Eric Genesky02/14/12
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This webinar is intended for Java developers, but does not require any prior knowledge of graph databases. You will learn about "use cases for graph databases" as well as "specific coding techniques for working with a graph database."
Nuno Job02/14/12
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This post focuses on automating tests using Travis, a distributed build platform, as well as Pedro Teixeira's Nock, which allows you to do HTTP Mock Testing "while preserving the possibility to run the tests against a real http endpoint."
Eric Genesky02/14/12
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In January, Google released LevelDB, "a fast and lightweight key/value database library." In a recent post on the "High Availability MySQL" blog has generated a discussion around the possibility of LevelDB bing a storage engine for MySQL due to its performance benefits. The discussion generated some insight LevelDB's comparative performance to MySQL.
Svend Vanderveken02/14/12
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This article illuminates the ease of migration between AWS and Cloudfoundry . . . at lease for an app he developed . . . after an initial deployment failure. He provides some useful reflection on his experience, and then offers various links to help out other developers.
Micheal Shallop02/13/12
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This writer has been working to add a mongo abstraction class on top of his base-data abstraction class: "I get the mongo constructor running and, like it’s mySQL counterpart, I have an rule in every table constructor that states “if I pass a indexed field and it’s value to the constructor, then instantiate the class pre-populated with that record.” And that’s where things start to head south.
Romiko Derbynew02/13/12
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Here's a step-by-step on how to install the Neo4j addon on a Heroku application. Also included is a series of links to tutorials for running the Heroku Toolbelt, as well as various links for important downloads if you intend to use Neo4j / Heroku Toolbelt.
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