I guess that’s what kept the Neo Technology — the guys behind Neo4j — busy lately: The Neo4j Spatial project supports the use of geographic data by providing utilities that simplify and support advanced capabilities like: Storage of geographic features like points, lines and polygons as graphs Indexing and querying based on location with R-trees, [...]

NoSQL databases: 10 Things you Should Know About Them: 5 pros and 5 cons by Guy Harrison: Five advantages of NoSQL Elastic scaling Big data Goodbye DBAs (see you later?) Economics Flexible data models Five challenges of NoSQL Maturity Support Analytics and business intelligence Administration Expertise A few amendments though: Elastic scaling: part … Post [...]

NoSQL Guide for Beginners: Alexandre Porcelli has a great post for NoSQL beginners: one of the most frequent question that people use to ask me about nosql is: what is the best nosql tool that enables me start with using my programming language (java, .net, php, python, etc..)? its almost impossible to have a quick [...]

I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve heard this phrase: “don’t worry about scaling your web application, worry about visitor (or customer) acquisition.” My response to this is always that you don’t need to choose one or the other, you can do both! In this post, I’m going to go over some [...]

Recently we’ve seen a lot of activity in the graph database world. Better understanding the space will help us make smarter decisions, so I’ve decided to reach out to the main players in the market and run a series of interviews about their projects … Post original

NoSQL Databases and Security: Jeff Darcy writes about NoSQL systems’ security (actually the lack of): Most NoSQL stores have no concept of security. […] Mostly it falls into two categories: encryption and authentication/authorization (collectively “a … Post original

Más enlaces rápidos sobre NOSQL, para variar: NoSQL  is About… NoSQL  Graph Database feature comparison Cassandra NOSQL EU 2010 – Twitter: “Hace 15 meses se tardó 2 semanas en hacer un ALTER TABLE de la tabla de statuses [tweets]“ NoSQL  in the Enterprise NOSQLEU – Graph Databases and Neo4j Dealing data deluge Yahoo! Cloud Serving [...]