NoSQL databases grew in popularity for use in highly distributed web applications that needed scale-out architectures but didn’t require the tabular relations used by traditional SQL relational ...

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The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

MongoDB's NoSQL database offers faster query processing and flexibility, making it a strong competitor against SQL databases like Snowflake, especially for AI applications. MongoDB's strategy includes ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

Both MongoDB and CouchDB are document-oriented datastores. They both work with JSON documents. They both are usually thrown into the NoSQL bucket. They’re both hip. But that’s where the similarities, ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

Big Data is not foreign to security analytics professionals. In fact, it is very common to see organizations dumping logs and events into a Hadoop system or another such Big Data platform. But many of ...