MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented, NoSQL database program. If you’ve been involved with the traditional, relational databases for long, the idea of a document-oriented, NoSQL database might indeed sound peculiar. “How can a database not have tables?”, you might wonder. This tutorial introduces you to s...
This article was sponsored by restdb.io. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.Databases strike fear into the heart of the most experienced developers. Installation, updates, disk space provision, back-ups, efficient indexing, optimized queries, and scaling are problems most could do ...
Clients with an existing application sometimes ask me to fix bugs, improve efficiency by speeding up the application, or add a new feature to some existing software. The first stage of this is researching the original code – so-called reverse engineering. With SQL databases, it is not always immediately obvious which...
Over recent years, client side web applications have gotten more and more sophisticated. Browsers have consistently been providing better JavaScript performance, and are capable of doing more and more things, with rich JavaScript APIs for things like geolocation, and peer-to-peer communication. The rise of rich web app...
Horizon is a scalable backend for cross-platform, JavaScript based mobile apps, especially those needing realtime functionality. It was built by the awesome people at RethinkDB and so uses RethinkDB as the default database. If you’re not familiar with RethinkDB, it’s an open-source database with realtime ca...
If you’re a web developer, possibly one of your most boring and repetitive tasks is the configuration of the basic setup for every new project. Configuring your my-project.dev domain, creating the database, installing WordPress (or any other CMS/Framework) for the thousandth time: you already know how to do it. W...
Most mobile apps will need to store data locally and HTML5 introduced new options for storing data locally. To store data locally in an Cordova app we can use HTML5 storage combined with other mechanisms provided by plugins. In this tutorial, I will introduce different ways of storing data locally and we will see how t...
In the previous article we discussed the primary differences between SQL and NoSQL databases. In this follow-up, we’ll apply our knowledge to specific scenarios and determine the best option. To recap: SQL databases:store related data in tables require a schema which defines tables prior to use encourage normal...
Since being acquired by Google, Firebase has continued to develop into a powerful platform for building both web and mobile applications. The company’s recent announcements from the Firebase team dealt with their pricing structure, which was changed dramatically. In the past some may have found Firebase too expen...
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