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Looks like AWS recommends TSC as well. https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/cmp402-amazon-e...

Thanks to gorhill there is now an update to uBlock to address this. https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/776183271210229760

I keep meaning to try out https://perch.co/ .

You are exactly right, however Vertica already handles the data locality, columnar data storage and data compression for us. Vertica is so good at its job that we are CPU bound on …

There is always a balance here between CPU and IO. For a long time databases and big data platforms were pretty terrible with IO. However, as the computer engineering community has…

I got tired of remembering all the features of the various NoSQL dbs. Here’s a site for all to use. Please help contribute.

http://foundationdb.com/ supports multiple doc transactions.

Go to 10gens site. Watch some of the videos and see the huge volume of data (in TPS or in TBs) that people are working with. Go on the google group and see what problems people hav…

We easily support 10s of millions of writes and reads against Mongo per hour on a very small (single digit) number of shards in the cloud (i.e. crappy disk I/O). While that is arou…

Yah, MySql 4.0 sucked, thats why I don't use 5.5 now. Come on.

It seems a bit disingenuous to post slides now reviewing a year old version of MongoDB that is almost 3 major revs behind. These days auto-sharding works and works well. There is a…

Some/M=most Mongodb client libraries can do this for you. I can see arguments both ways to keep it in the server or keep it in the client library. 10gen does a hell of a job suppor…

As mathias_10gen points out below this is the default behavior of ObjectId. You just have to be carful if you decide to override the _id field.