Of any enterprise technology, enterprises are most dedicated to their chosen database. Once data goes into a particular database, CIOs hate to take it out. It's costly, and the risks often outweigh ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a search engine database? Search engines are database management systems ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a content store database? Content stores are databases designed to store ...

The number of businesses using NoSQL databases, which specialise in storing and managing unstructured and unpredictable data, is set to mushroom in the next few years. For instance, a study from ...

Apple has acquired NoSQL database startup FoundationDB in what's thought to be a move to bolster the company's own cloud-based services. The 40-plus person company was founded in 2009 to develop ...

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale-out ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

Oracle today released an upgrade to its MySQL database that combines the best attributes of SQL and NoSQL databases. Version 7.4 of MySQL Cluster is based on an open source NoSQL database engine that ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...