MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB ...

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 ...

Good old-fashioned SQL still rules the database roost, though popular offerings in the NoSQL camp are closing the gap, while MySQL is the most popular of the whole bunch. The new 2019 Database Trends ...

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 NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

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NoSQL databases promise to upend a decades old relational approach to data. But with over 100 different NoSQL options to choose from, separated into unfamiliar categories like "document" and "wide ...

It took a long time for software architects to look beyond structured databases as a solution to common problems, but there is little debate that NoSQL databases have filled a serious void in a ...

NoSQL databases can help organizations manage their data in new ways for the digital era and can provide consumers with the types of digital experiences they’ve come to expect. However, last year saw ...

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 ...