In a previous article, I wrote about scale-up vs. scale-out architectures using SQL Server and NuoDB as examples.  NuoDB recently announced the general availability of their latest product release, 1.1, and it looks like they’ve made significant progress in improving their Microsoft support. NuoDB now supports 64-bit Windows environments, natively…

Recently I came across situation where database sharding was once again a suggested solution by architectures. Everytime I hear the word sharding I remember my earlier article about NuoDB on Shard No More – An Innovative Look at Distributed Peer-to-peer SQL Database. Sharding requires developers to think about things like rollbacks, constraints,…