Category: MongoDB

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: freddie davidson; You may have seen erwin's recent press release contents announcing DM 9.7 on January 23rd, containing a number of new (to erwin) capabilities. We would like to commend our brethren for following the trail that ER/Studio blazed over 2 years ago, recognizing the importance of NoSQL platforms in particular. NoSQL is now mainstream and integral to the data architecture of organizations in all industry sectors. Thus, we would like to add some perspective on how the IDERA ER/Studio data modeling solution remains at the forefront of innovation in this area.A number of the NoSQL platform capabilities mentioned in the ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Beth Chauvin; Are you using MongoDB? If so, you can use IDERA Uptime Cloud Monitor (UCM) to monitor your MongoDB for availability and performance. Uptime Cloud Monitor from IDERA offers a SAAS based out-of-the-box solution for monitoring a MongoDB instance for availability and performance. If you are not familiar with the concept of custom metrics as used in Uptime Cloud Monitor, please go through Custom Metrics information once before continuing with this document.  Uptime Cloud Monitor account.  If you don’t already have an account, you can sign up for a 14 day FREE TRIAL of ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. MongoDB has become a favorite among developers in no small part because of its alignment with modern software development practices.  Its flexible schemas are compatible with agile software development and the JSON-based document structure is well-matched with modern JavaScript-centric web architectures.However, databases don’t exist solely for the convenience of software developers: Data in a database is a critical business asset.  Data is used to support decision making, operational efficiency and perhaps become the basis for competitive data driven products.Prior to the development of the relational database, data was typically “locked” in pre-relational ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. It’s been long acknowledged that data is the most precious commodity of the 21st-century business, and that all efforts and resources need to be dedicated to the acquisition and care of this resource. Lately, however, executives have become enamored with the vision of transforming their organizations into “data-driven” enterprises, which move forward into the future on data-supported insights.So, what, exactly, does the ideal “data-driven enterprise” look like? Industry observers state there are some key qualities these emerging breeds of organization all have in common. “Data-driven enterprises think differently,” said Kimberly Nevala, director ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. MongoDB has announced MongoDB Stitch, a new service to make it easier for developers to integrate the services they need to build applications. The company has also expanded the availability of MongoDB Atlas, its database as a service, to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).According to MongoDB, as application and user interface logic continues to move into the front end, the remaining back end is often dominated by “plumbing” to handle storing and retrieving data, security, data privacy, or integrating and composing various services. The new Stitch backend as a service ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Tableau Software, a provider of software for visual analytics, has announced new features in Tableau 10.3, which will be released next week.“One of the things that we are really focused on is making sure that our innovation serves the breadth of our customer base from the smallest smart shops to enterprise organizations that have hundreds of thousands of employees," said Tableau's Dustin Smith.The new release is designed to help organizations achieve insights faster with four key areas of innovation.  First, automated table and join recommendations enabled by machine learning algorithms simplify the ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. What are the enabling technologies that make enterprise architecture what it is today? There are a range of new-generation technologies and approaches shaping today’s data environments. The key is putting them all together to help enterprise architecture fit into the enterprise’s vision of itself as a data-driven organization. Tools and technologies emerging within today’s data-driven enterprise include cloud, data lakes, real-time analytics, microservices, containers, Spark, Hadoop, and open source trends.CloudCloud computing, in its current form, has been on the scene for close to a decade. It has only been within the past ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. MongoDB faced its worst-ever public relations challenge earlier this year when a spate of ransomware attacks plagued tens of thousands of Mongo instances. These ransomware attacks were aimed at MongoDB databases that were configured without any authentication mechanisms and which were located on the public internet.  It had long been known that large number of MongoDB databases were insecurely configured:  back in 2015 about 40,000 such databases were identified. It’s important to realize that we are not talking about some sort of obscure vulnerability here – these MongoDB databases were configured with NO passwords ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. While not the most media-hyped technology, databases are certainly one of the most crucial when it comes to our always-online, always-connected society. Databases power not just the applications and websites we use every day, but the businesses that generate revenue and fuel the economy. The internet relies on functioning and well-performing databases to operate.The database landscape saw some interesting developments in 2016, and there are more to look forward to in 2017.We’ve already seen a definite and positive move to open source database solutions, even in enterprise markets. This makes sense. While ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Way back in the summer of 2014, I told you about how I used DB-Engines to determine the popularity of various data management tools and vendor platforms.At that time, I explained how I used DB-Engines.com and to see where the overall trends that I’m interested in are headed. Staying up with the trends isn’t just for fashionistas!We are the Champions, My FriendThe surprise came when Microsoft SQL Server was announced as the DBMS of the year for 2016 by DB-Engines.com. For the 12 months of 2016, SQL Server experienced a steep rise ... Read More