“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed the ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

MongoDB has built a substantial business on the back of its open-source, NoSQL document database. This week at its annual developer conference in New York, it showed that it maintains a healthy ...

The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it’s easy to fit the various ...

MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale-out ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Jun 01, 2015, 03:01pm EDT Jun 01, 2015, 03:07pm EDT This ...