MongoDB is one of the many free open source NoSQL databases that exist today. I wanted to try out how well the official drivers for C# worked when using Mono. On the MongoDB web site they have pre built binaries of MongoDB for almost every platform, i grabbed the 64 bit binary for OSX. No [...]
CouchDB is a document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is a NoSQL product designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices. There are several good libraries that will abstract accessing CouchDB from various programing languages. However, in order to understand what goes on in the libraries, [...]
Traditionally relational databases has been the primary way of storing, sorting and searching data, and for most purposes they are very good at it. However, in the last few years – with the growth of cloud computing and sites such as Facebook pushing relational databases to its limits, people have started to look for other [...]