A key-value store, like other NoSQL databases, provides just enough infrastructure for simple value storage and retrieval, integrates more directly with applications that use it, and scales in a ...

Key value databases are the least complicated of all data management structures. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

When NoSQL first hit the IT consciousness in 2009, an explosion of NoSQL databases seemed to appear out of thin air. Some of these contenders had in fact been around for some time, with others thrown ...

Last month database firm Basho, which created Riak and continues to develop it as an open-source project, unveiled the latest release of the distributed NoSQL key-value data store, which it ...

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 ...

In Key Value data stores, data is represented as a collection of key–value pairs. InfoQ spoke with Casey Rosenthal from Basho team about data modeling when using Key Value NoSQL databases.

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Key-Value Stores The most basic of the NoSQL databases is the key-value store, which is composed of a key and an associated data value (which can be a number, a string, or even another set of ...

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One database may be based on a key-value architecture, but implement some features of a document or a graph NoSQL store. Making matters even more complicated in this fast-moving field is the fact that ...

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 ...

In Key Value data stores, data is represented as a collection of key–value pairs. InfoQ spoke with Casey Rosenthal from Basho team about data modeling when using Key Value NoSQL databases.