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 ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.

In previous columns, we’ve noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

MongoDB has introduced a new release of its NoSQL document database platform with key features that support additional data models, the combination of operational and analytical processing, elastic ...

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...

Since 2007, MongoDB has amassed millions of users of its document-based database, as workload shifts to the cloud has accelerated data collection growth as a whole and thus the need for architectures ...

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