Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

Administration of relational databases remains a tricky and costly operation, even for open-source offerings, creating barriers to adoption by startups. The need for DBA (database administrators) ...

On the other hand, NoSQL was built to address the challenges of experience data (also referred to as Big Data). Big Data is known for its variety, its volume and its velocity.

NoSQL is engineered for real-time big data, but it’s operational rather than analytical. Using NoSQL together with Hadoop is the answer for real-time big data, Couchbase CEO Wiederhold told eWEEK.

Webscale transaction and personalization is the ‘poster child’ for NoSQL, he said, while real-time event processing and sensor data management are other key use cases. When considering a NoSQL ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the NoSQL market is projected to be worth $4.2 billion by 2020. Generally, NoSQL databases are better equipped to deal with other non-relational data too.

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 ...

The big difference is that MongoDB will create indices for the columns of your database and return queries faster when the indices are correctly constructed. That’s part of your job, by the way.

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.

It's clear that NoSQL adoption has paid dividends to the Twitters and Netflixes of the world. But it's been less apparent just how much attention mainstream organizations ought to pay to the trend ...

Derived from Microsoft’s NoSQL database as a service, DocumentDB, Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s attempt to create a single database that can use multiple paradigms.