In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

Continuing its leadership in enterprise-class database solutions, Oracle announced Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0. With this latest release, Oracle offers developers an enhanced NoSQL solution for building ...

Some may say the SQL vs. NoSQL debate is moot because each database design performs the same function: data storage. There are numerous reasons, however, why a database administrator may gravitate ...

With big data becoming the biggest thing in IT since the internet itself, developers everywhere are embarking upon applications their organizations covet to accelerate their businesses. But before ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...

Many embedded applications require a database of sorts, but the type can vary widely from ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) to SQL (structure query language). While SQL is readily available on ...

This is an excerpt from Chapter 15 from the book NoSQL for Mere Mortals by Dan Sullivan, an independent database consultant and author. In the chapter, Sullivan takes a look at the four primary types ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ScyllaDB announced today that companies can now run their globally distributed workloads using Scylla Cloud on Google Cloud. A highly performant, ...