NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

In a scale-out architecture, associated with NoSQL databases, a distributed set of nodes known as a cluster is used as the basic architecture. It provides highly elastic scaling capability, ...

In a recent DBTA webcast, Shane Johnson, senior product marketing manager, Couchbase, discussed the relationship between NoSQL and Hadoop, detailing the multiple ways to integrate NoSQL databases with ...

A relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement and explains how to choose the right database for your application.

Regarding NoSQL, Mendelsohn outlined its value proposition in his conference keynote: "NoSQL is good for applications which need fast, simple database requests (key/value lookups, no joins), which ...

FaunaDB is a distributed, strongly consistent OLTP NoSQL database that is ACID compliant and offers a multi-model interface. It has an active-active architecture and can span clouds as well as ...

With the tablet replication architecture, version 6.0 of the NoSQL database aims to distribute its content faster and more flexibly in the cluster.

The broad range of NoSQL tools that include projects like Cassandra, CouchDB, Hadoop, Memcached, and MongoDB bring to bear a number of technical advantages--even if no one tool does everything.