The Best of the Week (May 2): NoSQL Zone

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the NoSQL Zone (May 2 to May 8). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. Cassandra, Neo4j, NoSQLUnit, and More: Presentations from NoSQL Matters 2014

The NoSQL Matters conference took place in Cologne, Germany from April 28th to April 30th. If you weren't able to make it, don't worry, because the presentation slides are becoming available now! Here are some noteworthy entries.

2. Clojure: Paging Meetup Data Using Lazy Sequences

A feature of the meetup API is that each end point will only allow you to return a maximum of 200 records so I needed to make use of offsets and paging to retrieve everybody.

3. NoSQL or NoACID: The Reality of the SQL vs. NoSQL Debate

NoSQL vs. SQL is a rather contentious topic: everybody loves comparing databases (to MongoDB, most of the time), explaining their reasons for abandoning NoSQL (or moving to it), and just generally trashing one solution or another. It's a very dramatic space. But what is the disagreement really all about?

4. Multi-Tenancy with Couchbase Server

Couchbase Server is frequently used in the public and private cloud deployments, and SaaS application settings and tenancy model questions come up often. In this article, the author wanted to explain a couple of the options for setting up multi-tenancy with Couchbase Server.

5. MongoDB and the New PHP on Heroku

One of our close Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) partners, Heroku, recently announced its official public beta for new PHP features. This post will cover how to install the PHP MongoDB extension on Heroku.