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MongoDB Brings Speed, Scalability, and Performance to Handling Unstructured …
WebMD's drive to bring MongoDB in was its scalability and performance characteristic, especially sharding. Traditionally scalability, Dvorkin explained, is vertical, scale-up. It's become very expensive to find service and support for this scalability …
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Drawn to Scale wants to make MongoDB scale like Hadoop
Its fully distributed index is what lets Spire read and write data at speeds that other approaches to scaling databases (e.g., sharding) can't handle while maintaining the ability to handle rich queries. To date, the company has been focused on letting …
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MongoDB Counters Couchbase Performance Claims
… that the matchup was against MongoDB 3.0, that vendor's latest release featuring the recently acquired Wired Tiger 3.0 storage engine. The new storage engine substantially improves that product's write performance and scalability, according to …
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CouchDB 2.0 counters MongoDB with improved scaling
CouchDB, the NoSQL database system from the Apache Software Foundation, is getting more than a change to the left of the decimal point with its new 2.0 release, now available as a developer preview. The project also received major code donations from …
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