nosql

February 8, 2013

Why MySQL 5.6 is no real threat to NoSQL

Over the past couple of days a number of people have asked my opinion of the latest MySQL 5.6 release. For those who haven’t seen the news, Oracle announced its first major MySQL release in two years. Since NoSQL has grown rapidly in key markets where MySQL has historically been strong, I guess it’s not surprising that Oracle focused a lot of attention on addressing weaknesses that have made NoSQL such a big success.

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August 24, 2012

NoSQL for the enterprise

Following my talk at Jazoon (which I covered in my earlier blog), I had a whirlwind trip to five Java User Groups (JUGs) in Europe and the Pacific Northwest. I would like to thank Gerd Cestan and the Stuttgart JUG, Antonoio Goncalves and the entire committee at Paris JUG, Nimret Sandhu and the Seattle JUG, Manfred Moser and the Victoria JUG and Darren Gibbons and Sam Cirka and the Vancouver JUG for hosting me.

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June 21, 2012

Why Database Technology Matters

[This blog was syndicated from http://damienkatz.net/]

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September 14, 2011

Couchbase NoSQL Meetup in Tel Aviv

It’s been a while since I got to feel the “techy” Israel. Since I moved to Silicon Valley a decade ago, I haven’t had much chance to meet and talk with the people behind Israel’s great entrepreneurial success. This visit was different. I met engineers and leaders from rapidly growing startups to more mature and public companies.

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August 10, 2011

NoSQL and Couchbase: Picking Up Speed

The past six months have been a whirlwind of activity at Couchbase and the pace just continues to accelerate, not just for Couchbase but for the NoSQL market as a whole. Since the merger of CouchOne and Membase in February, we’ve been hard at work to advance the state of NoSQL technology. To name a few things:

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May 13, 2011

Couchbase Momentum: NoSQL on the Rise

When we announced the Membase and CouchOne merger, it was thrilling to see the community share our excitement about the merger, and provide such positive feedback about the potential of bringing the CouchDB and Membase NoSQL technologies together.

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December 17, 2010

Building libmembase

I guess I was a bit too excited yesterday when I announced libmembase, because I completely forgot to mention where to get and build it.

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November 30, 2010

Membase for Dummies: Creating a bucket within Membase

Welcome back!  This is the third installment of the "Membase for Dummies" video blog series. The other entries in the series are:

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November 12, 2010

Use cases are driving the divergence, and the convergence, of NoSQL solutions

This morning, Matt Aslett of The 451 blogged on The beginning of the end of NoSQL in which he highlighted the uselessness of the NoSQL category name. Good post, as usual. But this isn't new news. People have been griping about the term since the day it was coined.

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