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, horizontal ...

The days of the single source of truth, one database for the entire enterprise, are over. Now even a relatively simple mobile application demands more than one database. The good news is that we have ...

One of the cloud-related trends that developers have been paying attention to lately is the idea of “NoSQL,” a set of operational-data technologies based on nonrelational technology. These ...

Many companies adopt a NoSQL database to transparently and inexpensively scale up horizontally by adding hardware instead of vertically increasing processing power on a RDBMS. To quantify how three of ...

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 ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...