Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a fully-managed document database service, building the Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to support existing MongoDB workloads. The cloud giant ...

Document databases offer a wonderfully flexible data model that often leads to scaling and performance issues. Here’s how Aerospike overcomes these challenges. Digital transformation continues to be a ...

While document-based databases are increasing in relevancy due to their optimizations for performance and scalability, employing a set of practices aimed at best using document databases for your ...

NoSQL databases were born out of the need to scale transactional persistence stores more efficiently. In a world where the relational database management system (RDBMS) was king, this was easier said ...

Last week, the first release candidate of MongoDB 2.8 shipped with two new additions that could prove highly significant for the open-source document database. The first is designed to address one of ...

The database industry has undergone a quiet revolution over the past decade. Traditional databases required administrators to provision fixed capacity, including both compute and storage resources.

Microsoft’s donation of DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation marks a strategic shift in the NoSQL database landscape, creating the first vendor-neutral document database standard that could reshape how ...

Document databases are a form of NoSQL database that may store all of the information for a given object in a single instance in the database. Contrast this with relational databases that might store ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a shot at MongoDB Inc. with the launch today of its new Amazon DocumentDB database service. Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a document store database? Document stores accommodate data that has a ...