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 ...

In the world of database technology, there are two main types of databases: SQL and NoSQL—or, relational databases and non-relational databases. The difference speaks to how they’re built, the type of ...

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 ...

If you’ve been working with databases at all, you know that NoSQL is the new hot topic. If, by ‘new’, you mean something that’s been around since the 70s. Jokes aside, NoSQL has largely filled a gap ...

YugabyteDB extends distributed Postgres to support document database workloads, empowering developers to build next-generation apps with the consistency of a relational database, scale of document ...

Aerospike Inc., which sells a commercial version of its namesake open-source, scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, today unveiled a new version that it said is the first real-time ...