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 ...

Wide column store databases allow you to manage data that just won’t fit on one computer. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This article on SQL and NoSQL comparison will throw light on the debate on advantages and limitations on each. SQL database is a relational database. The basic quality of NoSQL is that it may not ...

Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is enterprise ready and practically ACID. Could this be the NoSQL data store for the buttoned-down business crowd? [Originally published on ...

New tools dubbed NoSQL may help developers achieve Internet-scale for their database driven applications.