I had the opportunity to listen to Tony Tam at MongoSF talking about why and how they moved Wordnik from Mysql to MongoDB.  Both the Slides and the Video of the talk are attached to the end of this post. Wordnik is a new kind of “word” repository which is much more “current” than traditional [...]

I was at the MongoSF conference few weeks ago, and 10gen just hosted one at NY as well.I was taken aback by the simplicity and the hope MongoDB provides. I’ll have a more detailed post about what I think about it in a few days, but until then chew on these slides from bit.ly who [...]

State of current NoSQL databases : A very detailed post about many NoSQL solutions. A lot of work went into this one. Truth about joins: Google app engine datastore’s limitation of not allowing joins might soon be a thing of the past. Simple joins may now be possible on GAE if you are using Java. [...]