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 ...

While relational databases still dominate IT budgets, many new development projects are turning to NoSQL databases, which have emerged in recent years to serve all sorts of interesting use cases.

NoSQL databases (also called “Not Only SQL databases”) may be a better fit than relational databases if you face one or more of these concerns: The data has little, or inconsistent, structure ...

In fact, Postgres even managed to inch back into fourth place on the DB-Engines database popularity rankings. But as hot as Postgres has been, NoSQL databases are even hotter.

NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original NoSQL systems ...

It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around. That's where his team fed portions of Hadoop output for analysts to query more easily.

NoSQL databases can take a number of forms. They can be cloud services or install on-premises. They can support one or more data models: key-value, document, column, graph, and sometimes even ...

The Oracle NoSQL Database clearly came from a development team with experience in open source tradition. The only installation headache I had went away when I changed localhost to 127.0.0.1.

The NoSQL taxonomy supports key-value stores, document store, BigTable, and graph databases. MongoDB, for example, uses a document model, which can be thought of as a row in a RDBMS.

NoSQL databases: Cassandra Facebook needed something fast and cheap to handle the billions of status updates, so it started this project and eventually moved it to Apache where it’s found plenty ...

NoSQL databases still have not gained traction with a lot of enterprise customers, despite their enormous prospects for developers, because of the maturity of the relational database technology ...