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CouchDB versus Couchbase: What are the differences, and what happened to Membase?
Recently Couchbase published a comparison of Couchbase and CouchDB to denote the differences and simlarities between the two. This document addresses a common question: "What is the difference between CouchDB and Couchbase?", and what happened to Membase? InfoQ caught up with James Phillips, a Couchbase founder, to discuss the comparison and the merger of the two products Membase and CouchDB.
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Azavea Announces Release of GeoTrellis under GPLv3 License
Azavea a company based in Philadelphia that provides products for geographical data, has published an open source product called GeoTrellis under GNU GPL v3 license which is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
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Dempsy – a New Real-time Framework for Processing BigData
A new open source project – Dempsy adds one more option for people trying to do real time processing of big data. Comparable to Storm and S4 Dempsy is most applicable to near real time stream processing where latency is more important than guaranteed delivery.
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Rich Hickey's Datomic embraces Cloud, intelligent Applications and Consistency
Developed since 2010 by Rich Hickey and the Relevance team, Datomic offers some new approaches to database architecture. Leveraging current trends in cloud and storage it has strong transactions, rich query API and read scaling.
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Udi Dahan and Oren Eini (Ayende) on NServiceBus 3.0
NServiceBus 3.0 was recently released and InfoQ talked to Udi Dahan, the creator of NServiceBus, about the new features of the latest release. One of which is the RavenDb integration, a fairly new document data store written in .NET and created by Oren Eini (Ayende). InfoQ also took the opportunity to ask Ayende some questions and what the integration means for his own Rhino Service Bus.
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LinkedIn Engineering Releases SenseiDB 1.0.0
LinkedIn engineering releases SenseiDB 1.0.0, a NoSQL database focused on high update rates and complex semi-structured search queries, already used in production by LinkedIn in its search related pages (e.g. People/Company search)
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Rich Hickey Speaks on Datomic at Clojure/West
Rich Hickey spoke at the Clojure/West conference last weekend about his newest venture, Datomic, which he describes as “a distributed database designed to enable scalable, flexible and intelligent applications, running on cloud architectures.” Datomic sits on Amazon’s DynamoDB, and embeds Datalog, a subset of Prolog, to move queries into the application.
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Hazelcast 2.0 Released with Off-Heap Storage and Distributed Backups
Version 2.0 of Hazelcast, a Java-based caching, clustering and data distribution solution, has recently been released. As part of this, the product is now offered in both commercial Enterprise and free open-source Community Editions.
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VMware Introduces Spring Hadoop
VMware have announced the availability of Spring Hadoop, which integrates the Spring Framework and the Apache Hadoop platform.
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InfoQ User Survey 2012 - 14 Questions to Help Us Get to Know You
InfoQ would like to better understand your information needs: the type of content you find interesting, the kinds of tools & technologies you are using, and how you interact with the site. Please help us by taking our 2012 user survey - the survey is anonymous and your replies will be kept confidential.
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Oracle Big Data Appliance and Connectors Support Integration with Hadoop and Cloudera Manager
Oracle Big Data Appliance and Big Data Connectors support integration with Hadoop, Cloudera Manager and Oracle NoSQL Database. Oracle announced last month the availability of Big Data Appliance and Connectors as well as partnership with Cloudera. They also recently announced the Advanced Analytics for Big Data by integrating R statistical programming language into Oracle Database 11g.
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Group By in MongoDB
In response to demands for simpler data access, MongoDB is introducing the Aggregation Framework. This library uses a declarative pipe-line notation to support features such as SQL-like group by operations without having to write custom JavaScript routines.
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MySQL Cluster 7.2 Released with 70x Increased Performance and NoSQL Features
Oracle fires a new round for the heart of the NoSQL market. This 7.2 release of MySQL Cluster has new features putting it head to head with other NoSQL solutions including REST, memcached wire protocol, NoSQL C++, and standard MySQL interfaces. Oracle boasts 70x speed gains for complex queries using MapReduce like distributed joins. Is the world ready for a MySQL/NoSQL hybrid from Oracle?
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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases
In his new article “MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases”, Ilya Katsov gives a systematic view of the different MapReduce patterns, algorithms and techniques that can be found on the web or in scientific articles along with several practical use case studies.
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NoSQL Adoption Is on the Rise, a New Survey Suggests
A new Couchbase survey indicates that the adoption rate of NoSQL solutions by enterprises is rising. Will this be the year of NoSQL as some suggest, and what are the main adoption forces at work?