One of the primary reasons that IT organizations look to NoSQL databases in the first place is to address managing data at scale. But not all NoSQL databases scale equally well. Taking advantage of a ...

Relational databases (RDBMSs) have been the dominant data management tool for 30 years. They proved to be a good solution for the capture and management of structured data and fairly reasonable for ...

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 ...

Amazon just announced a large price reduction for its cloud-hosted NoSQL DynamoDB database service. Provision throughput capacity – that is, the number of reads and writes your application uses – now ...

For the last few years, the world of NoSQL databases has been filled with exciting new projects, ambitious claims, and plenty of chest beating. The hypesters said the new NoSQL software packages ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

Oracle today released an upgrade to its MySQL database that combines the best attributes of SQL and NoSQL databases. Version 7.4 of MySQL Cluster is based on an open source NoSQL database engine that ...

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 ...