SXSWI Attendees Embrace NoSQL Two sessions focused on the popular column-based NoSQL data store Cassandra, which was created by Facebook, and later used by high-volume sites such as Twitter.

There are four emerging categories of NoSQL databases available today: Key-Value stores, Column Family databases, Document databases and Graph databases. Each was designed to accommodate the huge ...

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

Wide column store databases allow you to manage data that just won’t fit on one computer. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

In a JSON document, store-based, NoSQL database, content is stored as documents. A document contains a set of key-value pairs, describing all the information that makes up a piece of content.

These provide some of the things that SQL-based relational databases do but are tuned heavily for handling the demands of big data. VoltDB falls into this category: it's a high-speed SQL database.

Cloudant is enlarging its cloud-based NoSQL data-layer-as-a-service. That may sound merely infrastructural, or interesting only to developers, but the Big Data ramifications are significant.

NoSQL databases did scale much, much better than Oracle Database, DB2, or SQL Server, which are all based on a 40-year-old design. However, each type of NoSQL database had new restrictions: ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases , and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics.

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.