Tag Archives: NoSQL

Pre-built or Ad Hoc

Posted on April 13, 2015 by way0utwest

One of the advantages of NoSQL databases id that the schema and organization of data is very flexible. The various types of databases usually allow the schema or organization of data to vary across entries. I hesitate to call them … Continue reading →

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You Better Learn to Work at Scale

Posted on January 29, 2015 by way0utwest

Early in my career, I worked on a large Novell Netware installation. We bought a server that was about 1/4 the size of a modern rack, which contained a number of blade slots each holding some type of hardware: CPUs, disk adapters, … Continue reading →

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No Handwaving Away the DBA

Posted on May 8, 2014 by way0utwest

There’s a great quote I read, at the end of this article. It says: “…if you think that switching to NoSQL will just let you hand-wave away all of the challenges of running a database, you are terribly misguided.” The context … Continue reading →

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Moving from NoSQL to an RDBMS

Posted on May 17, 2012 by way0utwest

I saw this link about a company that moved (Goodbye, CouchDB) from a NoSQL database (CouchDB) to a relational one (MySQL) because of some problems they experienced. Sauce Labs provides testing services in the cloud for developers using the Selenium … Continue reading →

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