There are no official MongoDB benchmarks because the developers don’t believe they accurately represent real world usage. This is true because you can only really get an idea of performance [...]

I originally prototyped our server monitoring service, Server Density, using MySQL, a database I’d been using for years on other projects. One standard feature is the auto_increment field property which [...]

For a guaranteed surge of traffic and to hit the Hacker News homepage, all you need to do is write about why you hate MongoDB and/or migrated to some other [...]

The latest MySQL release (5.6.6) integrates the memcached daemon into the core server which allows you to use the memcached protocol to query InnoDB tables. This is interesting because it [...]