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The Big Data / Fast Data Gap
Big Data Apache Hadoop the big data platform. It was designed to derive value from volume. It can store and process a lot of data at rest, big data. It was designed for analytics. It was not designed for velocity....
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
NoSQL and the Hybrid Cloud
If a NoSQL database can be deployed on-premise or it can be deployed in the cloud, why can’t it be deployed on-premise and in the cloud? It can, and it should. This article highlights a variety of hybrid cloud use...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
consistent: to be, or not to be
That’s the question. This is from a client’s point of view absent a partition and / or failover. MongoDB Is data in MongoDB consistent? MongoDB executes read and write operations on the primary node, and data is consistent. However, performance...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Internet of Things (IoT), it’s not Big Data
That's right. The Internet of Things is not big data. It's continuous data. If big data is an ocean, continuous data is a tributary. And… A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Wikipedia Nor does data...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
The Internet of Everything, the Pinnacle of Convergence?
Is the Internet of Everything the pinnacle of convergence? Yes. Yes it is. It’s where mobile, IoT / M2M, cloud and big data converge. Where? The smart refrigerator. Again (link). IoT / M2M The smart refrigerator generates data. It generates...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Discussion: How to Evaluate NoSQL Databases
I’m hosting a webinar with William McKnight, founder of McKnight Consulting Group and analyst for Gigaom Research, and Anil Madan, Senior Director of Engineering at PayPal. William will be discussing his new white paper, NoSQL Evaluator’s Guide. Anil will be...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
DataStax FUD
This is not the first time I've addressed FUD (link). However, it is the first time I've addressed FUD directed at Couchbase and that's a great thing. After all, I know what happens next. First they ignore you, then they...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Couchbase Blueprints in Apache Brooklyn
This is a guest post by our friends at Cloudsoft (link) on the Apache Brooklyn project (link). We’re excited to be collaborating with Cloudsoft. The cloud is the new operating system, and projects like Apache Brooklyn enable the enterprise to...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
DevOps Webinar: Provisioning NoSQL to Cloud Infrastructure with Apache Brooklyn
Alex Heneveld, CTO Cloudsoft, will be introduce Apache Brooklyn (link) and demonstrate how to deploy Couchbase Server to Amazon Web Services with Cloudsoft Application Management Platform (AMP), a commerically supported distribution of Apache Brooklyn. What is Apache Brooklyn? Brooklyn is...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Dissecting the NoSQL Benchmark
Let's dissect the Fall 2014 NoSQL Benchmark. Apache Cassandra / DataStax Enterprise. MongoDB. Couchbase Server. Go. Hardware Server (8) Client (32) Processor Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 (2) Intel Core i5-4440 Memory 64GB 8GB Storage (Data) 100GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Distributed Databases and Replication Design
One of the most important elements of distributed database architecture is replication. In fact, it defines the database architecture. It determines whether or not the data is consistent / available. Master / Slave Writes are executed on master nodes, replicated...
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014
Interview with the Ghost of MongoDB Scalability
Are you looking for my interview with the Ghost of MongoDB Scalability? Well, I moved it to my personal blog because it is, after all, a fictitious interview ;) Read the interview here. Enjoy!
Shane Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Couchbase
December 17, 2014