The main objective of NoSQL databases is improved efficiency. It is somewhat achieved with the use of new technologies and thinking outside the box. An example of the new technologies applied could be ...

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.

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

Scientists are problem solvers. There are technological advancements that happened by chance and those that happened because of research. Regardless of how much effort is invested in coming up with an ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

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, ...

Webscale transaction and personalization is the ‘poster child’ for NoSQL, he said, while real-time event processing and sensor data management are other key use cases. When considering a NoSQL ...

The NoSQL database market is a small but increasingly important segment of the database market, and it’s giving SQL database vendors and users a scare CARFAX, the online vehicle tracking and valuation ...

The articles on NoSQL databases in Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge column appearing in recent issues of LJ have been enjoyable. Because this is the Enterprise issue, I think it would be helpful to ...

One of the most interesting trends in the computer world during the past few years has been the rapid growth of NoSQL databases. The term may be accurate, in that NoSQL databases don't use SQL in ...

Ever since NoSQL burst onto the mainstream database world in the late 1990s there have been a group of people who have been saying that NoSQL is going to kill off the relational database engine. This ...