The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

NoSQL databases can break down data into segments — or shards — which can be useful for large deployments running hundreds of terabytes, Yuhanna says. “Sharding is an essential capability ...

NoSQL databases: Redis Like CouchDB and MongoDB, Redis stores documents or rows made up of key-value pairs. Unlike the rest of the NoSQL world, it stores more than just strings or numbers in the ...

The NoSQL movement has given us the opportunity to explore what we really require from our databases, and to find out what we already knew: there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

Other NoSQL databases are designed to be flexible, and focus on data models: they don’t enforce a rigid or consistent schema across stored data. These ‘document stores’ expand upon the traditional key ...

SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally.

From managing water meter data, through Bitcoin and video data, to web publishing, NoSQL database technology is finding real use cases. But it's likely to be stuck at 10% of the market for some time.

Basho's Riak 2.1 database zooms in on better write speeds The work that Riak company Basho has put into the NoSQL database's write speeds appears to have paid off with its 2.1 iteration. Read now ...