Articles on review

Alex Cruikshank

Alex Cruikshank

RethinkDB: a Qualitative Review

At Carbon Five we install and use many different database engines. Document-oriented databases are proving to be a good fit for more and more of our projects. MongoDB is the most popular of these and provides a powerful set of tools to store and query data, but it’s been plagued by performance problems when used

Rudy Jahchan

Rudy Jahchan

Book Review – Cassandra: The Definitive Guide

2010 will go down as a watershed year for NoSQL solutions. Apache Cassandra itself had a year that was, in the words of Jonathan Ellis, filled with Code, Community, and Controversy. Between all that activity, the brand new release of Cassandra 0.7, and our SXSW 2011 panel on accessing Cassandra, we at Carbon Five were