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  • Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server

    - by jean-marc.gaudron(at)oracle.com
    Master Note for Oracle Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server (Doc ID 1187674.1)This Master Note is intended to provide an index and references to the most frequently used My Oracle Support Notes with respect to Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database Machine environments. This Master Note is subdivided into categories to allow for easy access and reference to notes that are applicable to your area of interest. This includes the following categories: • Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Concepts and Overview• Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Configuration and Administration• Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Troubleshooting and Debugging• Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Best Practices• Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Patching• Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Documentation and References• Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server Known Problems• ASM and RAC Documentation• Using My Oracle Support Effectively

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  • Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud

    - by Javier Puerta
    Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – July 1, 2013 News Summary As organizations embrace the cloud, they seek technologies that will transform business and improve their overall operational agility and effectiveness. Oracle Database 12c is a next-generation database designed to meet these needs, providing a new multitenant architecture on top of a fast, scalable, reliable, and secure database platform. By plugging into the cloud with Oracle Database 12c, customers can improve the quality and performance of applications, save time with maximum availability architecture and storage management and simplify database consolidation by managing hundreds of databases as one. Read full press release

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  • Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud

    - by Javier Puerta
    Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Database 12c, the First Database Designed for the Cloud REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – July 1, 2013 News Summary As organizations embrace the cloud, they seek technologies that will transform business and improve their overall operational agility and effectiveness. Oracle Database 12c is a next-generation database designed to meet these needs, providing a new multitenant architecture on top of a fast, scalable, reliable, and secure database platform. By plugging into the cloud with Oracle Database 12c, customers can improve the quality and performance of applications, save time with maximum availability architecture and storage management and simplify database consolidation by managing hundreds of databases as one. Read full press release  

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  • Designing persistence schema for BigTable on AppEngine

    - by Vitalij Zadneprovskij
    I have tried to design the datastore schema for a very small application. That schema would have been very simple, if not trivial, using a relational database with foreign keys, many-to-many relations, joins, etc. But the problem was that my application was targeted for Google App Engine and I had to design for a database that was not relational. At the end I gave up. Is there a book or an article that describes design principles for applications that are meant for such databases? The books that I have found are about programming for App Engine and they don't spend many words about database design principles.

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  • Is it a bad practice to store large files (10 MB) in a database?

    - by B Seven
    I am currently creating a web application that allows users to store and share files, 1 MB - 10 MB in size. It seems to me that storing the files in a database will significantly slow down database access. Is this a valid concern? Is it better to store the files in the file system and save the file name and path in the database? Are there any best practices related to storing files when working with a database? I am working in PHP and MySQL for this project, but is the issue the same for most environments (Ruby on Rails, PHP, .NET) and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).

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  • I want a trivial example of where MongoDB can scale but a relational database will have trouble

    - by Ryan Weir
    I'm just learning to use MongoDB, and when discussing with other programmers would like a quick example of why NoSQL can be a good choice compared to a traditional RDBMS - however the scenarios I come up with and can find online seem pretty contrived. E.g. a blog with lots of traffic could be represented relationally, but will require some performance tuning and joins across tables (assuming full denormalization is being used). Whereas MongoDB would allow direct retrieval from one collection to the same effect. But the response I'm getting from other programmers is "why not just keep it relational and then add some trivial caching later?" Does anybody have a less contrived example where MongoDB will really shine and a relational db will fall over much quicker? The smaller the project/system the better, because it leaves less room for disagreement. Something along the lines of the complexity of the blog example would be really useful. Thanks.

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  • Database: relational/not relational/object oriented... What to choose?

    - by Damian
    I'm porting a website that I made for app engine to run on a dedicated server. It is coded in java and I'm looking for a database to replace google datastore. My first thougt was MySql because everybody uses it, but i dont like SQL and I think I would feel more comfortable using OODB or anything else. With google datastore I could modify my models and don't worry about the database definition at all. I know using MySql that isn't possible. And I don't want to miss that. And if I use a OODB, which should I use? What about performance compared to MySql? Well, any idea or tip will really help me since I know nothing about databases.

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  • Advanced search engine or server for relational database [closed]

    - by Pawel
    In my current project we are storing big volume of data in relational database. One of the recent key requirements is to enrich application by adding some advanced search capabilities. In the Project, performance is one of the important factors due to very large tables (10+ milions of records) with parent-children relations (for example: multi-level parent-child relationship, where I am looking for all parents with specific children). The search engine should also be able to check these references for hits. I have found some potential engines on stack overflow, however it looks like that all of them are dedicated rather for text search than relational db and hosted on linux os: lucene Solr Sphinx As I understand some of them use documents as a source of searching, but is it possible or efficient to create programmaticaly documents based on my relational data? As I am not familiar with all of their features/capabilities can anyone please make some recommendations or propose some different solution? To summarize my requirements: framework/engine to search relational database including decendants. support for Microsoft SQL Server can be used in .NET applications preferably hosted on Windows systems Does any of mentioned above are able to solve my problem? do you know any better solution?

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  • ????????!Oracle Database 12c ??????????

    - by OTN-J Master
    ??????Oracle Database 12c ?????????????¦Oracle Database 12c ???????????????????????????????????c???cloud???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1????????????????????????????????????2????????????1????????????IT??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1???????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Databae 12c ????????????????????????·??????????????????????????????????????????·??????????????????????????????????? Oracle Database 12c ?????? >>>>>>Oracle??????? Oracle Database 12c [????] >>>>>>OTN????? Oracle Database 12c [????] >>>>>>Oracle Database New Features Guide 12c Release1(??) [PDF?] [HTML?] ¦OTN???????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Database 12c ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????    1) ??????????????????     2) ??????(????)???????????    3) ???????????(??)?????????????    4) Oracle Databse 12c ????????????????????????????????????????????OTN?????????????Oracle Database 12c ??????????????????OTN?????????????????????OTN????RSS???OTN Twitter?????????????????????????????Oracle Database 12c???????????????

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  • Effective backup and archive strategy for database and linked files

    - by busyspin
    I am using Postgres to store a variety of application data for a webapp. Part of the application involves storing and retrieving user uploaded files. I am storing the files in the filesystem with some associated metadata in the database. I am trying to come up with a backup and archive strategy so that I can effectively backup and archive/restore the database and the linked files. Here are the things I want to accomplish. Perform routine backups that can be used for recovery from failures and which include all DB data and the linked files. Ideally, this backup would be done while the app is running. Live backup is certainly possible with a DB but I am not sure how to keep the linked files consistent with the database during the backup process Archive chunks of data as they become "old". These chunks must includes the database data plus any linked files. It should be possible to put the archived data back into production again. It would be ideal if it were easy to determine which ranges of objects were stored in each chunk. Do you have any advice for how to accomplish these goals? If the files were in the database as BLOBS these tasks would be much easier since normal database backup and restore functionality would handle this. I am not sure how to accomplish the same thing when file data is linked to database rows.

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  • Technology Selection for a dynamic product

    - by Kuntal Shah
    We are building a product for Procurement Domain in JAVA. Following are the main technical requirements. Platform Independent Database Independent Browser Independent In functional requirements the product is very dynamic in nature. The main reason being the procurement process around the world is different from client to client. Briefly we need to have a dynamic workflow engine and a dynamic template engine. The workflow engine by which we can define any kind of workflows and the template engine allows us to define any kind of data structures and based on definition it can get the user input through workflow. We have been developing this product for almost 2 years. It has been a long time till we can get down with the dynamics of requirements. Till now we have developed a basic workflow and template engine and which is in use at one of the client. We have been using following technologies. GWT-Ext (Front End Framework) Hibernate (Database Layer) In between we have faced some issues with GWT-Ext (mainly browser compatibility) and database optimization due to sub classing in hibernate. For resolving GWT-Ext issue, which a dying community so we decided to move to SmartGWT. In SmartGWT we faced issues related to loading and now we are able to finalize that GWT 2.3 will be the way to go as the library is rich and performance is upto the mark. We are able to almost finalize GWT-Spring based front and middle layer. In hibernate, we found main issues with sub-classing due to that it was throwing astronomical queries and sometimes it would stop firing any queries for 5-10 seconds or may be around 30 seconds and then resume again. Few days back I came to one article related to ORM. I am a traditional .Net SQL developer and I have always worked with relational database. Reading through this article, I also found it relating to the issues I face. I am still not completely convinced of using hibernate and this article just supported my opinion. Following are the questions for which I am looking for an answer. Should we be going with Hibernate in case of dynamic database requirements and the load of the data will be heavy in future? How can we partition the data, how we can efficiently join the data, how we can optimize the queries? If the answer is no then how do we achieve database independence? Is our choice related to GWT and Spring proper or do we need to change that too? Should we use any other key value pair database if the data is dynamic in nature and it is very difficult to make it relational?

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  • ???????/??????????!? Oracle?? ?????

    - by Yusuke.Yamamoto
    ????? ??:2010/12/01 ??:??????/?? ???? Oracle Database ???????????????????Oracle Database ??????????????????????????? Oracle Database ?????! Oracle Database ???/ Oracle Database ???Oracle Database ?????Oracle Database ????????????:??????·???/??????·???????????????????Oracle Database ???????/ ??????????????????????/??????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????? ????????????????? http://otndnld.oracle.co.jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/movie/Nyumon12011100.wmv http://www.oracle.com/technology/global/jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/pdf/20101201_Oracle_Beginner.pdf

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  • ???????/??????????!? Oracle?? ??????????

    - by Yusuke.Yamamoto
    ????? ??:2010/12/08 ??:??????/?? ???? Oracle Database ??????????????????????????? Oracle Database ????????????Oracle Database ??????????????????????????????????????? Oracle Database ???/ Oracle Database ??????Oracle Database ???????Oracle Database ???/ ????????????Oracle Database ???????(??)/ ???????????????????????????????????? ????????? ????????????????? http://otndnld.oracle.co.jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/movie/Nyumon12081100.wmv http://www.oracle.com/technology/global/jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/pdf/1208_1100_Oracle_Beginner_architecture.pdf

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  • Sqlite Database LEAK FOUND exception in android?

    - by androidbase
    hi all, i am getting this exception in database Leak Found my LOGCAT Shows this: 02-17 17:20:37.857: INFO/ActivityManager(58): Starting activity: Intent { cmp=com.example.brown/.Bru_Bears_Womens_View (has extras) } 02-17 17:20:38.477: DEBUG/dalvikvm(434): GC freed 1086 objects / 63888 bytes in 119ms 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): Leak found 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): java.lang.IllegalStateException: /data/data/com.example.brown/databases/BRUNEWS_DB_01.db SQLiteDatabase created and never closed 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.<init>(SQLiteDatabase.java:1694) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(SQLiteDatabase.java:738) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(SQLiteDatabase.java:760) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(SQLiteDatabase.java:753) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.ApplicationContext.openOrCreateDatabase(ApplicationContext.java:473) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.content.ContextWrapper.openOrCreateDatabase(ContextWrapper.java:193) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper.getWritableDatabase(SQLiteOpenHelper.java:98) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at com.example.brown.Brown_Splash.onCreate(Brown_Splash.java:52) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 02-17 17:20:38.556: ERROR/Database(434): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) how can i solve it??? thanks in advance...

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  • Distributed Database Services?

    - by Cameron
    I'm working on a database-driven web service with clients in the US and Australia. We're currently hosted in the US, however our Australian clients are experiencing lag. The lag is primarily due to the fact that the pages launch AJAX queries which require some db work to be done on our database in the US and these take a while to perform a round trip. Ideally, we're looking for some kind of distributed database system which replicates our main US database in Australia (and possibly other locations if we choose to expand later on). Does anyone have any suggestions for services which offer something like this? Something like a CDN (CacheFly etc), which is web-based, simple to set up etc but for databases instead of static files. Ideally it would be completely transparent to the application and abstract away all the distributed database management, syncs etc.

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  • mysql, sqlite database source code

    - by Yang
    hi guys, i know implementing database is a huge topic, but i want to have a basic understanding of how database systems works (e.g. memory management, binary tree, transaction, sql parsing, multi-threading, partitions, etc) by investigating the source code of the database, since there are a few already proven very robust open source databases like mysql, sqlite and so on. however, the code are very complicated and i have no clue where to start. also i find that the old school database textbooks are only explaining the theory, not the implementation details. Can anyone suggest how should i get started and is there any books that emphasis on the technology and techniques of building dbms used in modern database industry? Thank in advance!

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  • How to introduce web development to non-programmers?

    - by Gulshan
    Once one of my non-programmer friends asked, "I have a cool website idea that I don't want to share. Rather I want to develop it on my own. So, I want to learn web development. Tell me what to do?" And sometimes many other people asked about how to start with web development as a profession. But they are non-programmers or not from Computer Science background. What should I suggest to them? Learning programming from the scratch? Or using CMS-like tools? Or anything else?

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  • SQL SERVER – DBA or DBD? – Database Administrator or Database Developer

    - by pinaldave
    Earlier this month, I had poll on this blog where I asked question – Are you a Database Administrator or Database Developer? The word DBA (Database Administrator) is very common but DBD (Database Developer) is not common at all. This made me think – what is the ratio of the same. Here the result of the poll: Database Administrator 36.6% (254 votes) Database Developer 63.4% (440 votes) Total Votes: 694 This is open poll, if you want you can still participate here. Vote your Voice – DBD or DBA? I think it is the time when DBD word for Database Developer gets place in our dictionary. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Database, DBA, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology

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  • Oracle Database 12c is available for download now!

    - by Mike Dietrich
    Good things come to those who wait ... finally ... Oracle Database 12c (Oracle 12.1.0.1) is available for download from the Oracle Software Cloud (formerly know as eDelivery) and OTN (Oracle Tech Network) for Linux 64bit (Solaris will follow within the next few hours): eDelivery:Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1) for Linux 64bitOracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1) for Solaris SPARC64Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1) for Solaris x86. OTN:Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1) for Linux 64bitOracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1) for Solaris SPARC64Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1) for Solaris x86  . And yes, it will be supported on Oracle Exadata and SuperCluster as well . . And with the release of Oracle Database 12c we are offering you also our NEWUpgrade, Migrate and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12cslide deck with (sorry, we've did it again!) over 500 slides covering: The brand new Parallel Upgrade including new Pre/Post-Upgrade-Fix-Ups The new Full Transportable Export/Import Feature Obviously Oracle Multitenant, which got talked about a lot as Pluggable Databases or Container Databases before Plenty of new parameters, cool and very helpful features and much more ... Download the slides Upgrade, Migrate and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c And of course, the slide deck will see some updates in the near future -Mike . .

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  • Database – Beginning with Cloud Database As A Service

    - by Pinal Dave
    I love my weekend projects. Everybody does different activities in their weekend – like traveling, reading or just nothing. Every weekend I try to do something creative and different in the database world. The goal is I learn something new and if I enjoy my learning experience I share with the world. This weekend, I decided to explore Cloud Database As A Service – Morpheus. In my career I have managed many databases in the cloud and I have good experience in managing them. I should highlight that today’s applications use multiple databases from SQL for transactions and analytics, NoSQL for documents, In-Memory for caching to Indexing for search.  Provisioning and deploying these databases often require extensive expertise and time.  Often these databases are also not deployed on the same infrastructure and can create unnecessary latency between the application layer and the databases.  Not to mention the different quality of service based on the infrastructure and the service provider where they are deployed. Moreover, there are additional problems that I have experienced with traditional database setup when hosted in the cloud: Database provisioning & orchestration Slow speed due to hardware issues Poor Monitoring Tools High network latency Now if you have a great software and expert network engineer, you can continuously work on above problems and overcome them. However, not every organization have the luxury to have top notch experts in the field. Now above issues are related to infrastructure, but there are a few more problems which are related to software/application as well. Here are the top three things which can be problems if you do not have application expert: Replication and Clustering Simple provisioning of the hard drive space Automatic Sharding Well, Morpheus looks like a product build by experts who have faced similar situation in the past. The product pretty much addresses all the pain points of developers and database administrators. What is different about Morpheus is that it offers a variety of databases from MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch to Reddis as a service.  Thus users can pick and chose any combination of these databases.  All of them can be provisioned in a matter of minutes with a simple and intuitive point and click user interface.  The Morpheus cloud is built on Solid State Drives (SSD) and is designed for high-speed database transactions.  In addition it offers a direct link to Amazon Web Services to minimize latency between the application layer and the databases. Here are the few steps on how one can get started with Morpheus. Follow along with me.  First go to http://www.gomorpheus.com and register for a new and free account. Step 1: Signup It is very simple to signup for Morpheus. Step 2: Select your database   I use MySQL for my daily routine, so I have selected MySQL. Upon clicking on the big red button to add Instance, it prompted a dialogue of creating a new instance.   Step 3: Create User Now we just have to create a user in our portal which we will use to connect to a database hosted at Morpheus. Click on your database instance and it will bring you to User Screen. Over here you will notice once again a big red button to create a new user. I created a user with my first name.   Step 4: Configure your MySQL client I used MySQL workbench and connected to MySQL instance, which I had created with an IP address and user.   That’s it! You are connecting to MySQL instance. Now you can create your objects just like you would create on your local box. You will have all the features of the Morpheus when you are working with your database. Dashboard While working with Morpheus, I was most impressed with its dashboard. In future blog posts, I will write more about this feature.  Also with Morpheus you use the same process for provisioning and connecting with other databases: MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Reddis. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)Filed under: MySQL, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL

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  • What would a database look like if it were normalized to be completely abstracted? lets call it Max(n) normal form

    - by Doug Chamberlain
    edit: By simplest form i was not implying that it would be easy to understand. For instance, developing in low level assembly language is the simplest way to can develop code, but it is far from the easiest. Essentially, what I am asking is in math you can simplify a fraction to a point where it can no longer be simplfied. Can the same be true for a database and what would a database look like in its simplest, form?

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  • PostgreSQL 9.1 Database Replication Between Two Production Environments with Load Balancer

    - by littleK
    I'm investigating different solutions for database replication between two PostgreSQL 9.1 databases. The setup will include two production servers on the cloud (Amazon EC2 X-Large Instances), with an elastic load balancer. What is the typical database implementation for for this type of setup? A master-master replication (with Bucardo or rubyrep)? Or perhaps use only one shared database between the two environments, with a shared disk failover? I've been getting some ideas from http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/different-replication-solutions.html. Since I don't have a lot of experience in database replication, I figured I would ask the experts. What would you recommend for the described setup?

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  • relational data from xml

    - by Beta033
    Our problem is this, we have a relational database to store objects in tables. As any relational database could, several of these tables have multiple foreign keys pointing to other tables (all pretty normal stuff) We've been trying to identify a solution to allow export of this relational data, ideally, only 1 of the objects in the model, to some sort of file (xml, text, ??). So it wouldn't be simple enough to just export 1 table as data stored in other tables would contribute to the complete model of the object. Something like the following picture: Toward this, i've written a routine to export the structure by following the foreign key paths which exports something similar to the following. <Tables> <TableA PK="1", val1, val2, val3> <TableC PK="1", FK_A="1", Val1, val2, val3> <TableC PK="2", FK_A="1", val1, val2, val3> <TableB PK="1", FK_A="1", FK_C="1", val1, val2, val3> <TableB PK="2", FK_A="1", FK_C="2", val1, val2, val3> <TableD PK="1", FK_B="1", FK_C="1", val1> <TableD PK="2", FK_B="2", FK_C="1", val1> </Tables> However, given this structure, it cannot be placed into a heirarchial format (ie D2 is a child of C1 and B2; and B2 is a child of C2) Which in turn, makes my life very difficult when trying to identify a methodology to reimport (and reKey) these objects. Has anybody done anything like this? how do you do it? are there tools or documentation on how this is best accomplished? Thanks for your help.

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  • How should I copy the "mysql" database to my new server using PHPMyAdmin

    - by undefined
    My new webhosting company has set up a MySQL database for me and it has the tables MySQL and Information_schema already there. I want to copy my existing database from another server (a) to the new one (b). I assume I need to overwrite the 'mysql' database on server (b) with the one from my existing server (a) or atleast copy over the permissions. 1) What information does the mysql database hold? users and permissions I can see, does it have the login info for phpMyAdmin? I dont want to overwrite that obviously. 2) Should I drop the table on server (b) and import my original? 3) Should I just copy the users table? 4) Do I need to worry about the information_schema table? should I copy this over too? thanks

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  • Non-Relational Database Design

    - by Ian Varley
    I'm interested in hearing about design strategies you have used with non-relational "nosql" databases - that is, the (mostly new) class of data stores that don't use traditional relational design or SQL (such as Hypertable, CouchDB, SimpleDB, Google App Engine datastore, Voldemort, Cassandra, SQL Data Services, etc.). They're also often referred to as "key/value stores", and at base they act like giant distributed persistent hash tables. Specifically, I want to learn about the differences in conceptual data design with these new databases. What's easier, what's harder, what can't be done at all? Have you come up with alternate designs that work much better in the non-relational world? Have you hit your head against anything that seems impossible? Have you bridged the gap with any design patterns, e.g. to translate from one to the other? Do you even do explicit data models at all now (e.g. in UML) or have you chucked them entirely in favor of semi-structured / document-oriented data blobs? Do you miss any of the major extra services that RDBMSes provide, like relational integrity, arbitrarily complex transaction support, triggers, etc? I come from a SQL relational DB background, so normalization is in my blood. That said, I get the advantages of non-relational databases for simplicity and scaling, and my gut tells me that there has to be a richer overlap of design capabilities. What have you done? FYI, there have been StackOverflow discussions on similar topics here: the next generation of databases changing schemas to work with Google App Engine choosing a document-oriented database

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