Slidecast: 10gen Steps up with MongoDB 2.2

In this slidecast, Edouard Servan-Shreiber from 10gen presents an overview of MongoDB 2.2. MongoDB 2.2 has been a huge effort to make the database even easier to use and operate,” says Eliot Horowitz, 10gen co-founder and CTO. “We think that moving to NoSQL should make you a more productive software engineer, and features like the […]

Slidecast: MongoDB Overview

In this slidecast, Nosh Petigara from 10Gen presents and overview of MongoDB. MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and developer agility in mind. Instead of storing your data in tables and rows as you would with a relational database, in MongoDB you store JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas. The goal […]

Infographic: Hadoop Most Popular Big Data Source of 2011

Rachel King over at ZDNet writes that a new Jaspersoft report indicates that Hadoop was the most popular Big Data source in 2011. At the same time, it looks as though document-oriented NoSQL database MongoDB might be seeing the most growth. Key findings so far in the 2012 Big Data Index indicate: Over 15,000 Big […]