Shutterfly is a popular Internet-based photo sharing and personal publishing company that manages a persistent store of more than 6 billion images with a transaction rate of up to 10,000 operations… Read more »
10gen, the company providing commercial support for the open-source MongoDB database, has raised $6.5 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital. Its CEO says NoSQL will become the third leg of… Read more »
It’s a bittersweet today for the NoSQL community. The recently maligned Cassandra project got some much-needed love via a government intelligence project (as well as an Amazon EC2 connection), while the… Read more »
If you follow the NoSQL area, you’ve likely noticed the divergence in paths between Cassandra on one hand and CouchDB and MongoDB on the other. Data-store type aside, the main difference… Read more »
The first quarter of 2010 was all about established vendors making their plays in emerging fields like cloud computing, but the second quarter once again belonged to the little guys and… Read more »
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Server Beach’s hosted MongoDB servers represent the first commercially hosted NoSQL database option. (Better yet, they’re free.) Rackspace is notably working with the… Read more »