February 2010
6 posts
Announcing Speakers for NoSQL Live
It’s not too late to register for NoSQL Live in Boston on March 11th. We have an exciting lineup of speakers and panelists who will discuss real use cases for NoSQL in production systems. Session topics at NoSQL Live will include scaling with NoSQL, NoSQL in the cloud, schema design with document-oriented databases, the evolution of graph data structure from research to production, ...
Feb 23rd
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MongoDB: How it Works Webinar
In October, 10gen hosted a webinar where we heard from 10gen CEO Dwight Merriman and The Business Insider Lead Developer Ian White about the basics of developing applications with MongoDB and about how MongoDB is used in production at TBI. We’d like to follow up with a webinar focused on how MongoDB works “under the hood.” Please join us on March 8 at 12:30 PM Eastern Time....
Feb 22nd
MongoDB Survey Results
A couple weeks ago we asked people on Twitter, IRC, and the mailing list to fill out a survey on how they were using MongoDB.  About 120 people responded (thanks guys!). Here is what we gleaned: Everyone’s a noob How long people have been using Mongo: Most people haven’t been using Mongo for very long.  Exactly 0% said they’d been using Mongo for a year or more (which makes...
Feb 18th
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What about Durability?
Note: Journaling is available in MongoDB v1.8+ and is the default in v2.0. This post is pretty old. Update (3/16/2011): MongoDB v1.8 includes journaling Update (4/9/2010): real time replication and blocking for replication are implemented in v1.6 We get lots of questions about why MongoDB doesn’t have full single server durability, and there are many people that think this is a major...
Feb 10th
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Practical MongoDB Training with Kyle Banker
10gen is offering day-long MongoDB training sessions in San Francisco and New York City! Kyle Banker, a software engineer at 10gen, will be leading both sessions. Kyle has presented MongoDB in numerous forums, most recently at Chicago Ruby, and is excited to share his expertise. Kyle is preparing several interesting and challenging projects so that attendees can really get their hands...
Feb 8th
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Hosting Center Update
Update on supported hosting options: Dreamhost is now offering instant configuration and deployment of MongoDB to DreamHost PS customers Webfaction and Linode have recently published instructions for installing MongoDB on their respective systems Check out the Hosting Center for more details. If you’re interested in support from other hosting providers, please let us know which ones...
Feb 4th