Unlike with a relational database, it’s unlikely that a given object will be scattered across multiple nodes requiring an expensive join in a sharded scale-out architecture just to re-create ...

Graph databases facilitate discovery and analysis closely connected facts. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

Much in Aerospike echoes both other key-value stores and other NoSQL databases. Data is stored and retrieved by way of keys, and the data can be kept in a number of fundamental data types ...

Hybrid SQL-NoSQL database solutions combine the advantage of being compatible with many SQL applications and providing the scalability of NoSQL ones. Xeround offers such a solution as a service in the ...

It's not always easy to maintain this ACID consistency - especially as databases become widely distributed and replicated across multiple data centers. In 2000, Eric Brewer outlined the "CAP" theorem, ...

A key benefit that Cassandra has always had is that it is a massively distributed NoSQL database which enables organizations to have multiple nodes in different locations, that are all kept in ...

Oracle is introducing version 4.0 of its NoSQL database. First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java ...

I wish I could tell you how Apple scales iTunes, iMessages, and other wildly popular services. But I can’t. This is Apple, after all, and it’s not in the habit of spilling secrets.

ScyllaDB is an open-source NoSQL database that was originally designed to be a ... which is all about having data broken up into smaller pieces that are distributed across multiple database nodes.

Multivalue databases handle certain data structures that are just a little too complex for conventional relational databases. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL ...