Businesses are struggling to cope with and leverage an explosion of complex and connected data. This need is driving many companies to adopt scalable, high performance NoSQL databases - a new breed 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 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 ...

The ColumnFamily databases are inspired by Google’s internally-used BigTable. Other examples include Cassandra, HBase (Hadoop‘s database), and Hypertable. Cassandra is the implementation used in this ...

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The way organisations store, manage and analyse data will always be a challenging issue given the constant assault of data on corporate IT systems. It’s as though IT teams are always playing catch-up.