The Common Principles Behind the NOSQL Alternatives
This post draws some of the common patterns behind the various NOSQL alternatives, and how they address the database scalability challenge. Read the full story here
Nati Shalom
Why Existing Databases (RAC) are So Breakable!
One of the core assumption behind many of today’s databases is that disks are reliable. In other words, your data is “safe” if it is stored on a disk, and indeed most database solutions rely heavily on that assumption. Is it a valid assumption? Read the full story here
Is Your Data Really Secured?
Caching/data-grids are going through a similar evolution to databases. As with databases, we started by using caching as an embedded service to the application. Now we are in the phase where we need to be able to share the data between multiple applications, or in cases where we don’