Here's a look at 10 real-world NoSQL use cases, demonstrating how companies from a variety of industries are employing this relatively new database.

MongoDB is an example of a popular document DBMS. The next type of NoSQL offering is the key-value database. Key-value technology can be useful when most of the data access is done using a unique key.

For an example of a Couchbase Server-based company that didn't bomb, consider "Draw Something." It's a mobile app in which players take turns drawing a picture to prompt their partner to hit on ...

NoSQL for the Enterprise NoSQL has emerged to manage new data types, huge volumes of data and the relationships between complex and connected today inherent in modern applications. The type of NOSQL ...

For MongoDB, as an example, they’re developing tools to automate the selection of the right shard key (the linchpin in separating out your data workloads) and they’re automatically adding pre ...

Navigational databases offer exceptionally rapid data access in exchange for rigorous data structure requirements. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases ...

NoSQL, as I’ve written, boomed in the enterprise as companies struggled to manage the volume, velocity, and variety of modern data (the three V’s of big data, according to Gartner).

Multivalue databases handle certain data structures that are just a little too complex for conventional relational databases. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL ...