Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

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There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

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This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are key value databases? A key value database is a collection of paired ...

There is a lot of data out there, and much of it doesn’t need to be stored in heavyweight relational databases, with complex query languages. That is particularly true of modern cloud applications and ...

When NoSQL first hit the IT consciousness in 2009, an explosion of NoSQL databases seemed to appear out of thin air. Some of these contenders had in fact been around for some time, with others thrown ...

What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa Clara, ...

Under the banner of big data marches a confusing mass of terminology and acronyms. NoSQL is among them, attracting growing interest from businesses struggling to cope with exploding volumes and new ...

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly ...