The ColumnFamily databases are inspired by Google’s internally-used BigTable. Other examples include Cassandra, HBase (Hadoop‘s database), and Hypertable. Cassandra is the implementation used in this ...

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

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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 ...

Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

The way organisations store, manage and analyse data will always be a challenging issue given the constant assault of data on corporate IT systems. It’s as though IT teams are always playing catch-up.

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