This will be a really short post and will be about the whole flexible schemas in NoSQL land and how easy it is to store data and let the design of it evolve by time. “You just throw some JSON in there and then start harvest the data with some nifty queries.” I’m saying, no you are not freed from not…
Daniel Wertheim
This week the “MyCouch.Cloudant NuGet” package was released. Since Cloudant [http://cloudant.com] is almost 100% compatible with CouchDb [http://couchdb.apache.org/], the plain MyCouch package is working nicely with Cloudant. However, there are some great features in Cloudant which are not implement…
Daniel Wertheim
Cloudant is a distributed database system [http://cloudant.com], where each logical database is represented by a specific number of shards in a cluster (refereed to as Q). Each shard is furthermore stored N times in the cluster, hence each document will be stored on more than one node in the cluster…
Daniel Wertheim
Sitting here, reading the Amazon Dynamo paper [http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf], written in 2007, finding references from way back in 1978 all the way to 2007. If we group them by decades it looks like this: ![dynamo-refs](https://da [https://danielwert…
Daniel Wertheim
I just took MyCouch [http://www.github.com/danielwertheim/mycouch] – the .Net client for CouchDb for a spin with Cloudant [http://www.cloudant.com]. My findings? It was super easy to get started with a multi tenant account at Cloudant. You could probably do it under 5 min. Let me take you through so…
Daniel Wertheim