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...
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge the architecture of a distributed system by its topology. If two distributed systems are equally effective, is the one with the simpler topology the one with the better...
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...
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...
NoSQL doesn’t have to be difficult. Generally speaking, it isn’t. But admittedly, and especially on Windows, it’s not always as clean as it could be. Each database has its challenges. Some are difficult to install. Some are difficult to configure....
In our ongoing training series, a number of questions come up each time, I list them out with their respective answers below! Couchbase 102 – SDK Operations Operations Concepts By Language: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/DeveloperDay Q: Are these operations the same for mobile applications?...