Distributed-Systems

TL;DR When I talk to the developers about Hazelcast, many of them ask how Hazelcast is different from NOSQL databases, and particularly from MongoDB. In this blog post, I will try to answer this question once and for all. Introduction 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 a dynamic schema. In short, MongoDB is an NOSQL data store, primarily concerned with storing/persisting and retrieving schema-free data. ...

TL;DR This April, I’m going to deliver half-day workshop «Ground-up Introduction To In-Memory Data» at Code PaLOUsa conference in Louisville, KY. You’re an architect or a developer with years of experience creating amazing applications. You’ve just been assigned to a gasp low latency project! Because you’re an expert, you’re expected to master a new In-Memory caching/data technology and be productive from day 1. You feel completely lost as you open the JAR files. Not only that, but you have to contend with new topologies and data stores like NoSQL or Hadoop. ...