Database

We are in the midst of a “Big Data” revolution. But there is so much hype around this buzzword that it has become what I call a lemmings market: Every tech company on the planet now claims to have a solution for analyzing the mammoth amount of data businesses generate—and need to collect. No wonder

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A light-hearted chronicling of the evolution of a web developer. Some cool links included.

A light-hearted chronicling of the evolution of a web developer. Some cool links included.

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One of the things I wish I had known when starting my Django project for IllestRhyme was “How do I start a real Django project”. As in, …

Graphs are ubiquitous. Social or P2P networks, thesauri, route planning systems, recommendation systems, collaborative filtering, even the World Wide Web itself is ultimately a graph! Given their importance, it's surely worth spending some time in studying some algorithms and models to represent and work with them effectively...

Here at Sauce Labs, we recently celebrated the completion of a significant project to improve our service uptime and reliability, as we transitioned the last of

Rich Hickey explains the ideas behind the Datomic database: why Datalog is used as the query language, the functional programming concepts at its core, the role of time in the DB and much more.

Startups often ask my opinion on databases for their new application. In the past year we've launched a big CouchDB-based application, and we've helped build stylesclub.com, a Riak-based facebook app (but not yet launched). We've also helped launch ming.ly, an Amazon SimpleDB based application. Each of these has been an...

Alert: Extremely long tutorial post ahead. If you want to follow along, I’ve made an example project available here. Said example site is running here. An extremely abridged tldr version of this (containing just the ...

In a previous post, I promised to share some of my PyCon conversations from this year -- this is the first in that series :-)

If you don't like the weather in Missouri, wait 10 minutes – it'll probably change. Likewise, if you don't like the way that the Cloud industry is aligned, ...

This post is a list of many of the reasons to use Postgres, much this content as well as how to use these features will later be curated within Pos...

As I was porting ncdc over to use SQLite3 as storage backend, I stumbled on a problem: The program uses a few threads for background jobs, and it would be nice to give these threads access to the database.

How I got massively faster DB with async batching As said in my moreSQL article: “ I found databases to be fastest when my own code buffers DB interaction and reorders things and coalesces things so...

Have you been using MySQL for your web applications since your first foray into website development? Perhaps you now run, or are thinking about running, your own server and you will set up MySQL because that is what you have always used.

New submitter rescrv writes "Key-value stores (like Cassandra, Redis and DynamoDB) have been replacing traditional databases in many demanding web applications (e.g. Twitter, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others). But for the most part, the differences between existing NoSQL systems come down to t...

Developers working with OpenStack now have a Sandbox and one-stop shop for the OpenStack APIs. The site is "inspired by" sites like Twitter's API resource page, and includes ...

It’s been an interesting few days, comparing the performance of a production Oracle database performing full-text search on about 10 million records with a rough-and-ready PostgreSQL prototype (with the aim of working out whether the business can save itself a couple of hundred thousand dollars in licensing fees, of course!...