Rick Grehan
Contributing Editor
Rick Grehan is a longtime InfoWorld reviewer and a professional software developer who currently works for Oracle.
Review: MongoDB 3.0 reaches for the enterprise
MongoDB zeroes in on operations with pluggable storage engines and revamped management tools.
Review: Stretch your NoSQL database with MarkLogic 8
Enterprise-oriented document database brings powerful indexing and flexible querying to a broad range of data types
Review: Aerospike kicks scale-out NoSQL into high gear
Aerospike Server leverages memory and SSDs to bring extremely high throughput to a flexible, scalable key-value database.
Review: The big 4 Java IDEs compared
How Eclipse, NetBeans, JDeveloper, and IntelliJ IDEA stack up in capabilities and ease of use.
Review: Connect your data better with Neo4j
Designed for linking relationships, the Neo4j graph database combines speed, ease, and extreme flexibility, though the query language may take some getting used to.
Big data showdown: Cassandra vs. HBase
Bigtable-inspired open source projects take different routes to the highly scalable, highly flexible, distributed, wide column data store
HBase is massively scalable -- and hugely complex
Apache HBase offers extreme scalability, reliability, and flexibility, but at the cost of many moving parts.
Cassandra lowers the barriers to big data
Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very large data sets (think petabytes) across large clusters of commodity servers. Among many distinguishing features, Cassandra excels at scaling writes as...
4 free, open source management GUIs For MongoDB
MongoDB is certainly one of the most popular open source, document-oriented NoSQL databases. Developed and maintained by 10gen, MongoDB is available in both a free version and a paid-for enterprise version, which adds features such as...
NoSQL showdown: MongoDB vs. Couchbase
MongoDB edges Couchbase Server with richer querying and indexing options, as well as superior ease-of-use
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 shines on Windows 8
Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code.