MongoDB field CTO Rick Houlihan experimented and found vast performance gains when using a document database over a relational one. In the world of databases, MongoDB is a leader in the 'no SQL ...

Enter Amazon DocumentDB—a built-from-the-ground-up cloud native document database that is accompanied by Amazon’s extensive developments in database platforms. Allen focused on the ways in which ...

In the last 5 years, we've seen a blurring of the distinction between many of the upstart databases and the traditional SQL databases. NoSQL databases such as MongoDB have added features typically ...

Document databases are considered to be non-relational (or NoSQL) databases. Instead of storing data in fixed rows and columns, document databases use flexible documents.

Relational databases figured out how to store complex types using the SQL:1999 object model. Implementations of JDO (Java Data Objects) exist for relational as well as for object databases.