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Facebook Game of Year, Powered by NoSQL
Cookie Jam by Social Gaming Network (SGN) is Facebook’s Game of the Year. There is a sweet spot at the intersection of social, mobile, and gaming. It’s an opportunity to leverage instant hyper growth to create and maintain long-term success,...
Doug Laird, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
December 23, 2014
The Database Cage Match: Redux
Within every market, a leader emerges. In the 90s, the database market was represented by fierce competition between Sybase, Informix and Oracle. Oracle emerged as the leader. It was a well engineered database, a high performance database, and a general...
Doug Laird, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
December 16, 2014
The NoSQL Cage Match: Round 2
Architecture matters. A lot. Thumbtack Technology today reported results from its latest benchmark comparison of MongoDB, Cassandra DataStax, and Couchbase Server. Couchbase crushed the competition: 1.71M operations per second with sub-millisecond latency on read-heavy workloads, compared to just 227K for...
Doug Laird, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
December 16, 2014
When Big Data is Slow
The key to being successful in big data initiatives is being able to manage the speed, scale and structure at sub-millisecond speed. Big Data is a big term. It encompasses concepts about data types, dozens of different technologies to manage...
Doug Laird, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer
December 16, 2014