The paper opens with observations that NoSQL databases are generally built to handle certain data models. Tencent admits it ran several of them to power its fleet of products – social networks ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

After all, the bank’s brilliant leaders can’t turn around and “invest” the cash in subprime mortgages if there’s one penny missing after a failed database transaction.

Oracle NoSQL is able to make this promise because it guarantees that one master machine will hold all of the minor keys associated with a major key.

Some NoSQL databases tout single machine durability, but how can a business-critical application put all its eggs in one basket? Relational databases have employed replication for years to guarantee ...

Document store databases let you manage records that are long and have varied structure. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

Everywhere you look, there are new NoSQL databases — or “data stores,” if you’re one of those who feel that the word “database” can only be used by proper relational software offering ...

The fact that each of these database displayed different strengths and weaknesses isn’t surprising. Cassandra, Couchbase, and MongoDB are all ostensibly NoSQL database management systems, but each one ...

But the division between SQL and NoSQL is increasingly fuzzy, especially as database developers integrate the technologies together and add bits of one to the other. The genesis of NoSQL ...

UnQL, under development by Couchbase, Microsoft and SQLite is one of the most ambitious NoSQL query language projects I know of. The project seeks to deliver a universal SQL-like query language ...