Heroku runs the largest PostgreSQL service in the world, currently hosting more than 175,000 databases for web applications. Recently this database service was opened up to the world, making it available to anyone looking for a production-ready database server for their application.
Amazon presents its DynamoDB as a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. It is designed to address the core problems of database management, performance, scalability, and reliability. Grig Gheorghiu has written two blog posts where he shares his experience starting to use …
Drizzle is a transactional, relational, community-driven open-source database that is forked from the popular MySQL database. The Drizzle team has removed non-essential code, has re-factored the remaining code, and has converted the code to modern C++ and modern libraries.
Clouds are an interesting deployment platform, but managing state in dynamically scalable environments is not an easy task. There are many different NoSQL solutions with strong differences in performance, capabilities, reliability, isolation and ease of use. This video presents briefly the different NoSQL solutions and shows where Hibernate OGM fits …
This video shows how to deploy and manage a PostgreSQL database on the Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service. It starts by creating an application and embed PostgreSQL support. It demonstrates how to ssh into an openshift host and use the command line psql command to interact with the database.
This blog post provides information on how to use the Google Cloud SQL database on Google App Engine. Google Cloud SQL is web service that allows you to create, configure and use relational databases with Google App Engine applications. It is a fully-managed service that maintains, manages and administers your …
Whether it’s HBase, Cassandra or one of the many others, you’ve probably already hears about NoSQL. Perhaps you’ve wanted to try it out, but don’t have the infrastructure or expertise to setup an elaborate clustered environment. This videos shows how to make your own NoSQL platform using infrastructure clouds such …
In this article, based on chapter 4 of MongoDB in Action, author Kyle Banker explains how MongoDB schema differs from an equivalent RDBMS schema, and how common relationships between entities, such as one-to-many and many-to-many, are replicated in MongoDB.
