NoSQL

How To Install CouchDB from Source on a CentOS 6 x64 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install CouchDB from Source on a CentOS 6 x64 VPS

CouchDB is a NoSQL database developed by The Apache Software Foundation that “uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API”. Often called “a database that completely embraces the web”, it’s used by many startups as well as corporations due to its flexibility and scalability.

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How To Add NoSQL Queries to MySQL with memcached on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add NoSQL Queries to MySQL with memcached on Ubuntu 14.04

Memcached as a standalone server works as an intermediary in front of the MySQL client access layer and manages information only in the memory without an option to store it persistently. This makes it suitable for tasks such as caching the results of duplicate MySQL queries. In this article, memcached will be installed as a MySQL plugin and tightly integrated into MySQL. It will provide a NoSQL style access layer for managing information directly in regular MySQL InnoDB tables.

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Setting up a Multi-Region Deployment of HarperDB on the cloud provider — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Setting up a Multi-Region Deployment of HarperDB on the cloud provider

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/setting-up-a-multi-region-deployment-of-harperdb-on-cloud-provider-6e27b178-a4aa-4986-b475-d7d9423332d5/ HarperDB, a globally distributed data and application platform, is now available on the cloud provider Marketplace, giving the cloud provider users a fast way to bootstrap HarperDB. HarperDB is unique because it combines a high-performance database, user-built custom applications, and real-time data streaming into a single platform. The technology was built with a […]

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Scaling Ruby on Rails: Setting Up A Dedicated MySQL Server (part 2) — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

Scaling Ruby on Rails: Setting Up A Dedicated MySQL Server (part 2)

In this second part of our Scaling-Rails the cloud provider article series, we are going to see how to create a droplet to host the database layer, for application servers to connect-to and work-with. Our aim here is to minimize the chances of letting a Single Point of Failure (SPoF) emerge as a possible culprit of downtime (or loss), by distinctively delegating one single task per server.

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