The design goals of Cosmos DB include elastic global scalability, low-cost operation, low read and write latencies, 99.99 percent availability, predictable and tunable data consistency, stringent ...

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.

Document store databases let you manage records that are long and have varied structure. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

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: ...

Both NoSQL and Hadoop—separate technology initiatives that have grown in tandem—have turned the database industry, which has been static for many years, on its head. “In the early and middle aughts, ...

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 ...

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

NoSQL is increasingly being considered a viable alternative to relational databases, especially for Big Data applications, as more enterprises recognize that operating at scale is better achieved ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines the differences between SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL databases.

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.