The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

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 ...

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MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale-out ...

At the most fundamental level, consider that at the end of the day NoSQL and SQL are essentially performing the same core task - storing data to a storage medium and providing a safe and efficient way ...

A representative of ArangoDB reached out to present what the company thinks is a new idea. I was told that "We are working on the native multi-model idea, meaning that we found a way to efficiently ...

Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

With various advancements in the field of computing, scalability, resource utilization and power savings is being given higher priorities. NoSQL database and cloud computing goes hand in hand when ...