Recently I’ve been working with the Pattern and Practices group in a guide around Data Access focused on high scalability and availability of data driven applications. Through the book we show several DB families while analyzing their advantages and disadvantages when used in real life apps. The book is still in its final phase, but several drops have... read more
Continuing with my incursion in the NoSql database world, these days I’ve been playing with Couchbase installed on Windows 8 (after tackling several issues). Finally, after downloaded and installed it successfully, I’ve created a simple console application in C# to test its basis (as I did in my previous articles ‘Using MongoDB from C#‘ and ‘A little of... read more
The following are the workaround steps, that worked for me, when installing Couchbase (Enterprise Edition) under a Windows 8 operating system. After following these steps I’ve been able to get a healthy instance running. The workarounds in which this article is based can be found online, so here I’m going to keep it simple and just... read more
Hi, a few days ago I published an article showing how you can easily use MongoDB under C#. In this article I mainly plan to show the same operations or features, but using RavenDB. As this database is built in C# it will be easier to integrate it a native C# client. Besides both databases have very similar... read more
Today I’ve been playing a little with MongoDB, and after enjoyed triggering a few commands from Mongo’s console, I decided to download, build and try the C# driver. Build it and use it is pretty straightforward, and in a couple of minutes you can be playing with your local database from a C# console application. So I... read more
Lately I’ve reading the ‘Seven Databases in Seven Weeks’ book, and besides recommending it if you like databases in general, there are a lot of interesting concepts and ideas to learn from. In this post I won’t be talking about the details or good uses of a particular DB or which one to choose to... read more