When deciding to use NoSQL databases instead of SQL databases, it depends on your application's specific needs and characteristics. However, some scenarios and criteria that could point toward ...

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 ...

SQL and NoSQL databases offer different tradeoffs. While they may compete in the context of a specific project—as in, which to choose for this application or that application—they are ...

The term “NoSQL” is ambiguous, but for this discussion I use Dr. Rick Cattell’s NoSQL definition to mean “systems that provide simple operations like key/value storage or simple records ...

By adopting techniques from SQL, NoSQL is able to support more of these new scenarios - and the same is true of SQL. We're moving to a world where it doesn't matter if you're using SQL or NoSQL or ...

Database software vendor FoundationDB has acquired Akiban, another purveyor of database software, in a move to develop a hybrid data-store application capable of storing both SQL and non-SQL data ...

The global ecommerce technology provider is using Rubrik Datos IO to protect more than 60 NoSQL databases and tables across five different Cassandra database clusters. Digital River provides ecommerce ...

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 ...