Content stores let you manage information that’s too elaborate for conventional databases. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

Navigational databases offer exceptionally rapid data access in exchange for rigorous data structure requirements. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL 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.

Of any enterprise technology, enterprises are most dedicated to their chosen database. Once data goes into a particular database, CIOs hate to take it out. It's costly, and the risks often ...

NoSQL databases designed to store and manage JSON documents started gaining popularity in the early 2000s thanks ... To learn more about what can be done with N1QL visit the Couchbase N1QL tutorial.

Couchbase 4.0 elegantly integrates SQL and JSON, maintaining schema-independence while adding support for joins and a range of BI tools.

The serious part of Oracle NoSQL is a practical approximation of ACID compliance, the standard that SQL databases like to offer. ACID means “Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable transactions ...

But contrary the name NoSQL database vendors are increasingly addressing the need for their customers to use SQL as a primary language for querying data. “Shortly after the explosion of non-relational ...

NoSQL databases range from key-value stores to columnar databases to document databases to graph databases. On the face of it, nothing sounds more natural or reasonable than a NoSQL database. The ...

The broad range of NoSQL tools that include projects like Cassandra, CouchDB, Hadoop, Memcached, and MongoDB bring to bear a number of technical advantages--even if no one tool does everything.