The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it’s easy to fit the various ...

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schooner Information Technology, Inc., whose products deliver optimal scale-up and scale-out for MySQL databases and NoSQL data stores, today announced the general ...

For the last few years, the world of NoSQL databases has been filled with exciting new projects, ambitious claims, and plenty of chest beating. The hypesters said the new NoSQL software packages ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

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 ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...