“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a shot at MongoDB Inc. with the launch today of its new Amazon DocumentDB database service. Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully ...

The NoSQL database market is a small but increasingly important segment of the database market, and it’s giving SQL database vendors and users a scare CARFAX, the online vehicle tracking and valuation ...

MongoDB makes its full-text and vector search available for self-managed installations, including the Community Edition.

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

MongoDB is finally getting support for multi-document ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions. That’s something the MongoDB community has been asking for for years and ...

NoSQL databases have emerged to address the limitations of traditional relational systems when managing massive, heterogeneous datasets generated by modern applications. They dispense with rigid ...

Does the World Really Need Another Hadoop Distribution? Not all Hadoop packages offer a unique distribution of the Hadoop core, but all attempt to offer a differentiated value proposition through ...