The Cloud Datastore API is designed to improve the performance of the database for those accessing it from Google Container Engine, Compute Engine and other platforms.

With single-digit millisecond reads/writes, Google claims that its NoSQL database is 3X faster than HBase, Cassandra, and DynamoDB. Google Cloud Bigtable is available in beta starting today.

Follow this guide to the most developer-friendly NoSQL databases. ... Rather than invent an entirely new API for a document database ... CouchDB emphasizes simplicity of deployment and ease of use.

CouchDB emphasizes simplicity of deployment and ease of use. Retrieving data from the database just involves sending JSON-formatted queries to a REST HTTPS endpoint, with the results returned in JSON.

Matt believes the primary reason for the popularity of NoSQL databases is ease of use and familiarity. Using MongoDB as an example he says developers love it because it’s designed for developers: ...

Cassandra, the NoSQL distributed database upon which DataStax has built its business, has a solid reputation for fuelling complex, large applications at scale. However, compared to the likes of ...

Each microservice could use its own database, and in many cases, this meant that a full system could be using a patchwork of multiple databases. Sounds like a good approach, but there are challenges.

Google is today opening up the Bigtable technology behind most of its flagship offerings, as a fully-managed cloud NoSQL database service. Set out by the search-to-cloud giant in an influential ...