In February 2011, Membase, Inc. and CouchOne merged to combine the strengths of their two open-source NoSQL projects, Membase and CouchDB. The joint team released Couchbase 1.8 in January, 2012 as an upgrade to Membase 1.7. Version 2.0 is now…
No, it’s not really SQL. Its syntax resembles JSON. It returns a collection of JSON documents. But the Aggregation Framework addresses for MongoDB what many have found lacking in non-relational databases, the capability for ad hoc queries that SQL performs…
After writing my last post on MongoDB, I attended a meet-up at the Mozilla office in San Francisco to hear the tale of a real company in the process of migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB. The company, Harmonic,…
MongoDB is one of the most popular of open source NoSQL databases. Supported by 10gen and boasting a long list of deployments including Disney, Craigslist, and SAP, MongoDB has a remarkably simple application programming interface (API) and all the tools…
Jim Downey 