NoSQL databases have emerged to address the limitations of traditional relational systems when managing massive, heterogeneous datasets generated by modern applications. They dispense with rigid ...

If you had any doubt that the Big Data and NoSQL database market continue to remain red hot, look no further than today’s announcement that 10gen, makers of the open source mongodb, raised a ...

Big data is comprised of the well-known 3 V’s: volume, velocity, and variety. Traditionally, when there has been an influx of new data, systems have scaled up. Recently though with the variety and ...

Why the roles for NoSQL and Big Data are broadly misunderstood today How market enthusiasm for these loosely-defined domains has challenged traditional data modeling assumptions Why data modeling is ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

Google today announced the beta release of Cloud Bigtable, a new managed NoSQL database on the Google Cloud Platform. At the core of the new service is Google’s Bigtable database, which Google ...