Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a 'NoSQL' database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

Document databases, one of the family of data products collectively referred to as “NoSQL,” are for developers who want to focus on their application rather than the database technology. With ...

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 ...

When a developer leverages a document database to support transactional workloads and persistence, they can store/retrieve data much faster. Transactional applications can store/retrieve data with as ...

NoSQL databases (also called “Not Only SQL databases”) may be a better fit than relational databases if you face one or more of these concerns: The data has little, or inconsistent, structure ...

This aspect of NoSQL databases has been mistakenly called “schema-less.” While the term had the advantage of striking people’s attention, it gives a false impression that the developer does not need ...

Some NoSQL systems are document-oriented, meaning data is encapsulated in some kind of object, typically JSON. With Aerospike, containers are roughly like documents, but with functions and ...

Alternate data models in NoSQL offerings. Lucene, Solr and ElasticSearch offer text and document indexing functions, for example to implement real-time search as users enter terms. Graph databases ...

With their real-time access, scalability and flexible data model that accommodates a wide variety of data types, NoSQL document databases can be a great fit to build such platforms. 9 E-Commerce ...

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 ...