The days of the single source of truth, one database for the entire enterprise, are over. Now even a relatively simple mobile application demands more than one database. The good news is that we have ...

The Oracle NoSQL Database clearly came from a development team with experience in open source tradition. The only installation headache I had went away when I changed localhost to 127.0.0.1.

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 ...

Like NoSQL, NewSQL is used to describe a loosely-affiliated group of companies (ScaleBase has done a good job of identifying, some of the several NewSQL sub-types) but what they have in common is the ...

NoSQL databases offer key-value, graph, or document features. Hazelcast concentrates on key-value functionality, emphasizing speedy access to distributed data.

Most NoSQL databases store data in JSON or similar data structures, as opposed to the highly structured rows, columns, tables, and indexes of a relational database. Because FamilySearch was storing ...

The wrong database, or poor implementation, can utterly undermine your work. So get to know what’s what with NoSQL databases to suit your own Big Data analytics needs.

Generally, NoSQL databases sacrifice ACID compliancy for flexibility and processing speed, but for many e-commerce and financial applications, an ACID-compliant database remains the preferred option.

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.

Like so many technology debates before it, the SQL/NoSQL debate may soon enter the realm of great technology disagreements as Mac versus PC, fieldbus versus Ethernet, and PC versus PLC-based control.