Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

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 ...

Oracle is introducing version 4.0 of its NoSQL database. First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java ...

In this new world of scale-out, clustered NoSQL databases that process thousands — even millions — of transactions per second, good cache management is critical for good performance. Service I/O ...

Survey shows IT decision makers value the technology profile of a database above all factors for use in microservice architectures The IDC InfoBrief, “The Impact of Application Modernization on the ...

Imagine flash storage that stores data in exactly the format used by applications. That’s what’s promised by key-value flash media, as envisaged by at least one big drive maker, some researchers and ...

New case study examines how AcuityAds analyzes nearly 5 billion ad impressions each day with the Aerospike database to determine the best online ad placements and pricing MOUNTAIN VIEW, ...

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The NoSQL database market is a small but increasingly important segment of the database market, and it’s giving SQL database vendors and users a scare CARFAX, the online vehicle tracking and valuation ...