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Moshe Kaplan05/28/13
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How Much RAM Should You Have for MongoDB?

RAM is much faster than hard disks. For example, we gained X7 performance boost when we used MySQL In Memory engine rather than InnoDB engine.

Mark Needham05/28/13
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Polyglot Persistence: The 'Boring' Relational Option

I was chatting with Brian Blignaut last week after the Equal Experts NoSQL event and he made an interesting observation that in this age of Polyglot Persistence we often rule out the relational database.

Ayende Rahien05/27/13
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Challenge: The problem of locking down tasks…

The following code has a very subtle bug - can you figure out what the problem is?

Eric Genesky05/27/13
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A Lecture on Graph Traversal

The following 1:22 lecture was originally presented by Professor Steven Skiena at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Eric Genesky05/26/13
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Scaling with VoltDB: The Clustered Database

This is part 2 (of 2) of my Programming VoltDB – Easy, Flexible and Ultra-fast series

Eric Genesky05/26/13
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Getting Beer in and Out of Neo4j

Graph Databases have long been the realm of highly technical IT development professionals.

Eric Genesky05/25/13
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Apache Cassandra: NoSQL, Yes to Scale

This video from 2011 may be a little old, but it offers a strong overview of the features of Apache Cassandra.

Sarfraz Khan05/25/13
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Using MongoDB via .NET

In this post i will explain how can we interact with data residing in MongoDB using .Net.

Seth Proctor05/24/13
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MemcacheD vs. NuoDB Caching

You’ll be seeing much more from me in the way of me introducing new innovative features in upcoming releases, how we build NuoDB . . .

Eric Genesky05/24/13
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Introduction to Graph Databases

Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem provides a fast paced introduction to NOSQL, graph databases, and Neo4j, the world's leading graph database.

Eric Genesky05/24/13
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Scalable Full-Text Search with DataStax Enterprise

Piotr Klaczkowski, of DataStax, presented this 40-minute look at DataStax Enterprise at NoSQL matters.

Eric Genesky05/24/13
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Getting Started with Neo4j on Windows

Here's a 10-minute video for those who are looking to get started with Neo4j, the popular Java-based NoSQL solution.

Ayende Rahien05/23/13
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RavenDB Dynamic Aggregation Webinar

Here's a 23-minute webinar focused on dynamic aggregation with RavenDB, a .NET NoSQL solution.

Eric Genesky05/23/13
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Hadoop MapReduce Fundamentals 1 of 5

Lynn Langit presents this 32-minute first part in a five part series of MapReduce tutorials.

Eric Genesky05/23/13
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An Introduction to the Hortonworks Sandbox

Hortonworks recently unveiled the Hortonworks Sandbox, a free, comprehensive, easy-to-use, hands-on learning environment that provides the fastest onramp for anyone . . .

Eric Genesky05/23/13
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100% Big Data, 0% Hadoop, 0% Java

Pavlo Baron presented this 45-minute lecture on Big Data minus Java/Hadoop at NoSQL Matters.

Eric Genesky05/22/13
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Evolving Neo4j for the Cloud

Here's a video from last August that focuses on Adobe's adoption of Neo4j as their graph solution.

Eric Genesky05/22/13
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Three-Tier Application Architecture

Here's a 45-minute presentation on Polyglot Persistence from NoSQL Matters presented by Ralf Engelschall.

Seth Proctor05/22/13
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NuoDB: Modern Alternative to Database Sharding

Sharding is generally done for one or both of two reasons: To increase I/O bandwidth, and to partition in-memory data for more efficient usage of distributed caching

Jon Brisbin05/22/13
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Riaktor - Promise-Based Async API for Riak

Last week I released into OSS a library I’ve been hacking on for almost two years. It’s called Reactor and it’s a bit of a Frankenstein since it leverages the knowledge . . .

Lukas Eder05/21/13
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Pinterest and SQL vs. NoSQL

I’ve recently discovered a very interesting read about Pinterest‘s architecture experimentation.

Kristina Chodorow05/21/13
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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide 2nd Edition is Out!

The second edition of MongoDB: The Definitive Guide is now available from O’Reilly (affiliate link). It covers both developing with and administering MongoDB.

Ayende Rahien05/21/13
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RavenDB: Fixing Up the Build Process

There is a big problem in the RavenDB build process. To be rather more exact, there is a… long problem in the RavenDB build process.

Mark Needham05/21/13
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Neo4j/Cypher: Keep Longest Path When Finding Taxonomy

I’ve been playing around with modelling a product taxonomy and one thing that I wanted to do was find out the full path where a product sits under the tree.

Eric Genesky05/20/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 20)

Take a trip to Google Island, check out the Codebunk pair programming tool, and a promise-based ORM for Node.js. Plus: developer wages drop 2%, and Brian Eno on creative problem solving.