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 ...

Nesting documents in MongoDB. A powerful aspect of the document-oriented structure of MongoDB is that documents can be nested. For example, instead of creating another table to store the address ...

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 ...

Developers rely on JSON -- giving rise to NoSQL document databases. VoltDB CTO Ryan Betts predicts JSON will ultimately be incorporated into relational database software, too ...

Since 2007, MongoDB has amassed millions of users of its document-based database, as workload shifts to the cloud has accelerated data collection growth as a whole and thus the need for ...

CouchDB creator Damian Katz wasn't inspired by Google or Amazon or any other web giant. He was inspired by Lotus Notes, an online collaboration platform originally developed in the 1970s and 80s.