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 ...

NewSQL and NoSQL have similarities and differences. The “right” database choice is all about the use case, as always. Depending on what your company is trying to accomplish, you likely have a mix of ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

The articles on NoSQL databases in Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge column appearing in recent issues of LJ have been enjoyable. Because this is the Enterprise issue, I think it would be helpful to ...

Today's databases are not only expected to be flexible enough to handle a variety of data formats, they're also expected to deliver extreme performance and to scale to handle humongous data volumes.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

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 ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...