Posts Tagged ‘database’

(Microsoft) Access for the Web?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Anybody who has ever used Microsoft Access knows that it’s a very high leverage tool. In a short while you can get basic database functionality, forms and reports up and running quickly. It certainly has its limitations but in some instances it’s just the right solution.

With that background, this post was pretty interesting to skim.  [...]

Force.com – Multitenant Architecture Under the Covers

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Overview of the Force.com multitenant architecture, given by Salesforce Chief Software Architect.

Without multi-tenancy
- Customers may not be on the same versions
- Lots of hardware, software versions

Multi-tenancy
- Data-focused platform for building data-focused applications.
- SF is expert at providing virtual database for each tenant.

SF
- Runs 10′s of thousands of [...]

MySQL Spatial Extensions

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

I was looking for some way to do proximity searches for a client and came across these features in MySQL 5.x and higher:

MySQL Spatial Extensions

The extensions allow indexing of geospatial data so that you can quickly evaluate relationships between geometries.  Currently, the only completely implemented functions are the Minimal Bounding Rectangles (MBR) functions. So, for [...]