Development of MongoDB began in 2007, when the company (then named 10gen) was building a platform as a service similar to Windows Azure or Google App Engine. In 2009, MongoDB was open sourced as a sta ...
Methods of adding more resources for a particular application fall into two broad categories: horizontal and vertical scaling.To scale horizontally (or scale out) means to add more nodes to a system, ...
In computing, denormalization is the process of attempting to optimize the read performance of a database by adding redundant data or by grouping data. In some cases, denormalization is a means of add ...
The company was founded in 2001 by Christopher Lindblad, who was the Chief Architect of the Ultraseek search engine at Infoseek, and Paul Pedersen, a professor of computer science at Cornell Universit ...
Technology addresses information overflow and latency problem for interactive web and mobile GUI-based database applications where limited-size screens and bandwidth restrictions prevent users request ...
Enterprise database management ensures database quality, and performance which serves both internal and external users. Continuous and growing data volumes, coupled with the legal and regulatory requi ...
As of 2009, hundreds of document formats using XML syntax have been developed, including RSS, Atom, SOAP, and XHTML. XML-based formats have become the default for many office-productivity tools, inclu ...
O'Connell gives one reason for the use of XML in databases: the increasingly common use of XML for data transport, which has meant that "data is extracted from databases and put into XML documents and ...
In object-oriented programming, data management tasks act on object-oriented (OO) objects that are almost always non-scalar values. For example, consider an address book entry that represents a single ...
Objects are the run-time entities in an object-oriented system. They may represent a person, a place, a bank account, a table of data, or any item that the program has to handle.There have been severa ...
Object-oriented programming is an approach to designing modular, reusable software systems. Although discussions of object-oriented technology can get trapped in the details of one language vs. the ot ...
From 1969 to 1982, Ratliff worked for the Martin Marietta Corporation in a progression of engineering and managerial positions. He was a member of the NASA Viking program flight team when the Viking s ...
VisiCalc was launched in 1979 on the Apple II and immediately became a best-seller. Compared to earlier programs, VisiCalc allowed one to easily construct free-form calculation systems for practically ...
Prior to the widespread use of microprocessors, a computer that could fit on a desk was considered remarkably small; the type of computers most commonly used were minicomputers, which were themselves ...
ER diagram (entity-relationship model) A sample Entity-relationship diagramDatabase designs also include ER (entity-relationship model) diagrams. An ER diagram is a diagram that helps to design databa ...
