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Biographical Information

Cory Isaacson

Cory Isaacson is CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, maker of dbShards, a leading database scalability suite that provides a true "shared nothing" architecture for relational databases. Isaacson has authored numerous articles in a variety of publications including Database Trends and Applications as well as others, and recently authored the book Software Pipelines and SOA (Addison Wesley). He has more than 20 years' experience with advanced software architectures, and has worked with many of the world's brightest innovators in the field of high-performance computing. Isaacson has spoken at hundreds of public events and seminars, and assisted numerous organizations address the real-world challenges of application performance and scalability - effectively applying emerging technologies to a variety of fields including social networking, mobile applications, gaming, and high volume transaction systems. In his prior position as president of Rogue Wave Software, he actively led the company back to a position of profitable growth, culminating in a successful acquisition by a leading private equity firm.

Isaacson can be reached at cory.isaacson@codefutures.com.
You can learn more about dbShards at www.dbshards.com.

Articles By Cory Isaacson

Database Sharding: The Key to Database Scalability

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. Database sharding can be simply defined as a "shared-nothing" partitioning scheme for large databases across a number of servers, enabling new levels of database performance and scalability. If you think of broken glass, you can get the concept of sharding—breaking your database down into smaller chunks called "shards" and spreading them across a number of distributed servers.

Posted 14 Aug 2009 / August 2009 Issue

Database Sharding: The Key to Database Scalability

Posted 18 Aug 2009 / August 18, 2009 Issue

SQL or NoSQL? How to Choose the Right Database for Your Application

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this raises questions concerning the best way to go. One recurring truth that eventually surfaces with all new software technologies is that "one size does not fit all." In other words, you need to use the right tool for the job, as each has its own strengths and weaknesses. In fact, a danger of many new architectural approaches is one of "over-adoption" - using a given tool to address a wide array of situations when originally they were designed for the specific problem domain in which they excel.

Posted 09 Nov 2010 / November 2010 Issue