Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

The NoSQL acronym suggests it's the SQL language that is the key difference between traditional relational and newer non-relational data stores. However, an equally significant divergence is in the ...

Is it possible to write a safe accounting (or inventory management, etc) system that would work with an eventually consistent (and distributed) data store, like say, CouchDB? Do you just have to "live ...

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