I think there are some essential differences between CouchDB and Couchbase Server that need to be pointed out. I will not write about the advantages of switching from CouchDB to the Couchbase Server because those are described pretty much everywhere (see The Future of CouchDB by Damien Katz or Couchbase vs. Apache CouchDB by Couchbase). … Read more
@Schildmeijer is largely right, however port 7001 is still used when using TLS Encrypted Internode communication So my complete list would be for current versions of Cassandra: 7199 – JMX (was 8080 pre Cassandra 0.8.xx) 7000 – Internode communication (not used if TLS enabled) 7001 – TLS Internode communication (used if TLS enabled) 9160 – … Read more
If you have virtual memory functionality turned on (EDIT: now deprecated), then Redis starts to store the “not-so-frequently-used” data to disk when memory runs out. If virtual memory in Redis is disabled (the default) and the maxmemory parameter is set (the default), Redis will not use any more memory than maxmemory allows. If you turn … Read more
NoSQL databases are there to solve several things, mainly: (buzz) BigData => think TB, PB, etc.. Working with Distributed Systems / datasets => say you have 42 products, so 13 of them will live in Chicago datacenter, 21 in NY’s and another and 8 somewhere in Japan, but once you query against all 42 products, … Read more
With Cassandra you solve these kinds of problems by doing more work when you insert your data — which sounds like it would be slow, but Cassandra is designed for fast writes, and you’re probably going to read the data many more times than you write it so it makes sense when you consider the … Read more