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MongoDB – Now With Sharding

Version 1.6 of MongoDB was released last week while I was at devLink. What makes this an important point release? Two things: sharding and replica sets. Sharding is a way of partitioning data. Data will be sharded by a key – this could be based on
Aug 10 2010 05:27 AM
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MongoDB – Basic Querying

I put together a little video tutorial showing you how to accomplish some basic querying with MongoDB. Download the sample code. A QuickTime/H.264/iPhone formatted video is also available – download it now.
Jul 30 2010 04:21 AM
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Fun with NoRM 3

Third post in “Fun With NoRM” will be about how “the dynamism” of JavaScript and JSON is bridged into the rigid and statically typed world of C#. The thing is, in principle there’s no way to be certain that a JSON object
 
mookid
Jul 22 2010 11:13 PM
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MongoHub – mongoDB Administration Tool for Mac

MongoHub is an application used to manage mongodb databases (locally or over the internet). It lets you add and remove databases and collections, change fields and indexes, view and filter the content of collections, add, edit and remove rows, perform
 
Mufti Ali
Jul 16 2010 05:38 PM
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The Future of Databases

The Story So Far I’ve been in love with data storage since I first opened up SQL*Plus and issued a select statement. The different ways to store data are fascinating. Even within a traditional OLTP database, there are a variety of design patterns
Jul 16 2010 05:47 AM
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mongoDB – Scalable Document Oriented Database

MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database written in C++. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which
 
Mufti Ali
Jul 15 2010 02:40 PM
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Getting Started With MongoDB and NoRM

I just realised – I hate writing SQL. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I have also recently noticed a growing trend in SQL alternatives or “nosql” with open source C# drivers. Today I put one and one together and decided to try out one of these –
 
Luke Lowrey
Jul 09 2010 10:34 PM
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T-SQL Tuesday – “Did he just say that?” edition

As in, I didn’t participate in the most recent T-SQL Tuesday about my favorite feature in SQL 2008 R2. Want to know my favorite 2008R2 features? PostgreSQL 9.0 and MongoDB. PostgreSQL and MongoDB are rapidly advancing features that solve my daily
Jun 15 2010 02:53 PM
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Practical MongoDB Part 3: Fine Tuning

In Part 1 of this series I briefly discussed setting up MongoDB to run as a service. In Part 2 I covered data access objects. In this installment I'd like to touch on embedded documents before reviewing a few configuration changes you should use to
Jun 14 2010 02:25 AM
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I will be speaking about NoSQL and MongoDB

as seen from the eyes of a .NET developer at two events in June (in Danish). The first event is a JAOO Geek Night at Dong Energy in Skærbæk on Tuesday June 29th at 4:30 pm. You can read more about the free JAOO Geek Nights here. The other event is a
 
mookid
Jun 13 2010 06:20 PM
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Practical MongoDB Part 2: NoRMalized Data Access

In Part 1 of this series I demonstrated setting up MongoDB to run as a Windows service. In this segment, I'll show you how I setup my data access layers using NoRM.The GlueFor starts I created two modules: an abstract class for my data access objects,
Jun 11 2010 04:28 AM
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Practical MongoDB Part 1: Up and Running

Like many others, I've been intrigued by the NoSQL movement and the various alternatives which have appeared in recent years. One of these options which is rapidly growing in popularity is MongoDB, a document oriented database written in C++ with
Jun 11 2010 01:33 AM
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MongoDB Approach to Availability

Another thing I find interesting about MongoDB is its approach to Durability, Data Consistency and Availability. It is very relaxed and will not work for some applications but for others it can be usable in current form. Let me explain some concepts and
May 01 2010 08:43 AM
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MongoDB Approach to database synchronization

I went to MongoSF today – quite an event, and I hope to have a chance to write more about it. This post is about one replication problem and how MongoDB solves it. If you’re using MySQL Replication when your master goes down it is possible
May 01 2010 06:39 AM
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More checking out MongoDB: Updating

In MongoDB, there’s no way to lock a database, collection, or document. The ability to work without locking is a requirement for any db that wishes to be horizontally scalable, and obviously this imposes some limitations and/or possibilities
 
mookid
Mar 19 2010 10:22 AM
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More checking out MongoDB: References

This post will touch a little bit on the mechanism used for references, and then a few thoughts on how document-orientation relate to OO. Now – if you, like me, are into OO and normalized object models – the weirdness begins….. or maybe
 
mookid
Mar 05 2010 02:01 PM
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Checking out MongoDB

Having experienced a lot of pain using RDBMSs (1) as a default choice of persistence, having read a couple of blog posts about MongoDB, and being generally interested in widening my horizon, I decided to check out MongoDB. This post is a write-as-I-go
 
mookid
Mar 04 2010 05:15 PM
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SourceForge.net chooses Python, TurboGears and MongoDB to Redesign their Web Site

Rick Capeland, SourceForge.net gave a presentation on, “How Python, TurboGears, and MongoDB are Transforming SourceForge.net”, at PyCon 2010 today in Atlanta, Georgia. Copeland discussed SourceForge’s desire to migrate off PHP code and
Feb 21 2010 02:00 PM
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Installing Mongo as a Windows Service

So, you’re interested in Mongo, but you happen to be a second-rate Windows user? First, you’ll need to download Mongo and put it somewhere useful. The download just comes with executables – no *.msi or setup files. I put mine at
 
Jarrett
tags: mongodb
Feb 20 2010 10:29 AM
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Heroku Tips for the Cheap

I've been playing around with the Ruby/Rails cloud provider Heroku a little bit lately just to try it out. It is somewhat like Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure in the way it works since you bundle your application and push it out to the Heroku
 
carson
Dec 20 2009 03:20 PM
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Ming 0.1 Released - Python Library for MongoDB

One of the things that's been nice about working with SourceForge for the last few months is the chance I get to work with new open source technology and contribute something back. Well, the first (in a long series, I hope) of projects we're putting out
 
Rick Copeland
tags: mongodb
Dec 08 2009 03:56 AM
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NoSQL – A fluid architecture in transition

Lot of talk about NoSQL. Much of it well deserved. And while lot of the excitement around it is well understood by those in the know, some of it may actually be confusing to those who are relatively new to the matter. This post is actually for the latter
 
Dhananjay Nene
Oct 21 2009 08:51 PM
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Flash Gordon and NoSQL

No matter if they say that MongoDB got its name from "humongous", for me it's the planet Mongo from Flash Gordon.
Aug 29 2009 02:35 AM