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.

This one, for example, shows MongoDB to deliver 13x more predictable scaling than other NoSQL databases. Oh, but this one shows Cassandra to deliver orders of magnitude better performance across a ...

Event store databases enable tracking, retention and replay of events in minute detail. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

Some NoSQL solutions, therefore, focus on consistency models, i.e. availability: the database is always available to accept new data and can always provide an answer when queried, even if that data is ...

It's not so much a black and white, SQL vs. NoSQL situation, of course: TokBox still kept SQL databases around. That's where his team fed portions of Hadoop output for analysts to query more easily.