The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

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The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

The NoSQL movement has given us the opportunity to explore what we really require from our databases, and to find out what we already knew: there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

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: ...

Five years ago many NoSQL databases were pre version 1.0 and when, it came to the CAP tradeoff, choosing availability over consistency was in vogue. Fast forward to today and distributed, fault tolera ...

It's clear that NoSQL adoption has paid dividends to the Twitters and Netflixes of the world. But it's been less apparent just how much attention mainstream organizations ought to pay to the trend ...

More than one database to rule them all For Max Schireson — the president of 10gen, the company behind the open source NoSQL database MongoDB — Oracle’s march into his territory is no surprise.

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.