FoundationDB Inc. reportedly intends to open a new front in its war against the conventional wisdom of database design with the planned addition of another configuration option for its adaptive ...

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 ...

Couchbase is a prominent NoSQL database that, along with MongoDB, explicitly targets Big Data applications. Although based on technology from the Apache CouchDB document store project, Couchbase ...

Jumping into the growing NoSQL market, Microsoft has debuted a simple data store through the Azure cloud hosting service. The document database is well suited for organizations or startups that need a ...

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used ...