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Google Cloud SQL: your database in the cloud
By Navneet Joneja, Product Manager for Google Cloud SQL Cross-posted from the Google App Engine Blog One of App Engine’s most requested...
Anonymous Correctly Predict The De-listing $1B Company
" Anonymous " has a new project called Anonymous Analytics , which recently predicted that a Hong Kong company, Chaoda Modern Agriculture h...
LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Postgresql 9.2 will have boat-loads of performance enhancements
This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity.
The Little MongoDB Book available on GitHub
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NoSQL is What?
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess…
Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack
Perhaps one of the first inescapable observations that a new Google developer ( Noogler ) makes once they dive into the code is that Protocol Buffers (PB) is the "language of data" at Google. Put simply, Protocol Buffers are used for serialization, RPC, and about everything in between .
How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server
Bad news: that page is gone. We try to keep our site as accurate and up-to-date as possible so that if you’re reading advice here, you can rely on it. That means from time to time, we decide that a page isn’t a great reference anymore, and the work to update it is beyond what […]
Cassandra 1.0: 400% read performance improvement
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.