Most IT organizations operate under the assumption that achieving maximum application performance requires a relational database. But increasingly, a handful of NoSQL database alternatives have shown ...

In this new world of scale-out, clustered NoSQL databases that process thousands — even millions — of transactions per second, good cache management is critical for good performance. Service I/O ...

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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 ...

When it comes to enterprise computing, to paraphrase the always-eloquent Meghan Trainor, it’s all about that database. Whether you’re a Netflix serving up the latest videos to millions of consumers, a ...

In this special guest feature, Slava Akhmechet of RethinkDB discusses where the industry is going in terms of real-time app development, and what the NoSQL database that powers the new wave of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...