Both MongoDB and CouchDB are document-oriented datastores. They both work with JSON documents. They both are usually thrown into the NoSQL bucket. They’re both hip. But that’s where the similarities, ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

Big Data is not foreign to security analytics professionals. In fact, it is very common to see organizations dumping logs and events into a Hadoop system or another such Big Data platform. But many of ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

Amadeus, the travel technology company set up by a group of European airlines in 1987 to enable travel agents to carry out flight ticketing online, has turned to a NoSQL database technology to enable ...