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Series: Database Diversity

Linked Data

Linked Data, RDF, and SPARQL Part 1

August 7, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, NoSQL, Technology 4 comments

Getting Into Linked Data and the Semantic Web This will be a three part series on the RDF metadata model and SPARQL query language, two components of the Linked Data structured data methodology. All of this is part of the collective vision known as the Semantic Web–a Web of Data

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Putting NoSQL In Its Place

April 10, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, NoSQL, Technology 4 comments

We’ll call it the NoSQL Pessimism Variable: The number of search results you see before you find a page disparaging NoSQL as a viable datastore option. These pages are usually either good natured posts on why it’s a neat idea but ultimately not viable, or posts straight out slamming the

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Getting Busy with Riak

March 5, 2013 Steve Karam Big Data, Development, News, NoSQL One comment

Welcome back to Database Diversity, where the queries are made up and the relationships don’t matter. Today we’re going to talk about a simple yet insanely powerful NoSQL Database called Riak. While its core functionality is a key/value datastore, Riak is capable of so much more: full text querying, MapReduce,

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Start Using MongoDB

February 25, 2013 Steve Karam Big Data, Development, News, NoSQL, Technology 3 comments

Guten Tag, Namaste, Hola, Zdravstvuite! While you should always work to master your first language, a simple understanding of other cultures and their languages is always beneficial. In these days of social/career networks and rising global connectedness, being open to diversity is an absolute must. This is true in the

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Series

  • LabAlchemy
  • Hadoop Streaming
  • Cloudera Hadoop Training
  • Optimizing WordPress
  • Adventures of Ace, DBA
  • Grow Your Career
  • Database Diversity

Oracle Blogs

  • Amardeep Sidhu
  • Bertrand Drouvot
  • Bobby Curtis
  • Brian Pardy
  • Chet Justice
  • David Aldridge
  • Dimitri Gielis
  • Doug Burns
  • Jonathan Lewis
  • Kellyn Pot'Vin
  • Kevin Closson
  • Kyle Hailey
  • Marco Gralike
  • Oracle Base
  • Osama Mustafa
  • Pete Finnigan
  • Radio Free Tooting
  • Richard Foote
  • Tim Hall
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