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HDF vs NOSQl solutions

Hi I get a look in some scientific data stored in HDF5 format and I was wondering if there is any NoSQl solution that will reach the same performance in read/write as HDF5 . The data of my example ...
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How DateTime data type is stored in different database systems? [closed]

I'm curious about how date and time related datatypes are stored in different database architectures?? How data structures for datatime dts are different in different DBMSs?
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Identifying Users

We have a site that allows users to generate their own content. If users generate illegal content, we'll be submitting a report to the authorities. In the event that we do have to report a user, we ...
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Application Design with a Shared Database

I have a generic design question that relates to enterprise applications but I think that software developers from other types of projects may have experience with this as well. The scenario is ...
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NoSQL and BIG DATA

I am doing an internship on Big Data technologies so I am new to this area. My question is about the use of NoSQL in the Big Data architecture. Do we need always to use a distributed storage (like ...
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Plugin Architecture: How to Handle Databases and Logging?

I am in the process of designing an architecture for a plugin based application and I have some questions about how to handle database access and logging. The goal of my application is to allow a ...
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Should I try persistence in flat file before database?

Somebody explained to me that since in agile development, policy and the application logic should be more important than details such as persistence method, persistence decision should be taken at the ...
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Establishing an API to provide end-user apps/scripts access to multiple types of databases

Question and Context I am currently working on a project where the main question is, how do we insert an API between the database and end-users who may develop applications/scripts of their own that ...
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DB Schema for packaging products / services together under a single pric / Offer

I'm trying to 'conceive' the business logic of this website that have many activities, that the users can build their "combo" and get discounts depending on their choices and how long they are willing ...
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Is there any reason not to go directly from client-side Javascript to a database? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Writing Web “server less” applications So, let's say I'm going to build a Stack Exchange clone and I decide to use something like CouchDB as my backend store. If I use ...
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3answers
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Architecting persistence (and other internal systems). Interfaces, composition, pure inheritance or centralization?

Suppose that you need to implement persistence, I think that you're generally limited to four options (correct me if I'm wrong, please) Each persistant class: Should implement an interface ...
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Clustering and custom applications

So lets say we have a clustered environment setup. We have a cluster SQL Server (I don't know exactly how its done but lets just say its been done for the sake of argument). Now if a website or ...
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Is having functionality in DB a road block to scalability?

I may not be able to give the right title to the question. But here it is, We are developing financial portal for wealth management. We are expecting over 10000 clients to use the application. The ...
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4answers
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Data architecture for event log metrics?

My service has a large ongoing number of user events, and we would like to do things like "count occurrence of event type T since date D." We are trying to make two basic decisions: What to store? ...
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Amazon SOA: database as a Service

There is an interesting interview with Werner Vogels which is partly about how Amazon does Service Oriented Architecture: For us service orientation means encapsulating the data with the ...

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