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 ...

NoSQL databases have surged in popularity as organizations struggle to serve highly distributed Web applications, but navigating the various types of NoSQL databases and the vendors providing them has ...

“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 ...

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 ...

What Is a NoSQL Database? A NoSQL database is a non-relational data storage system designed to store and retrieve data ...

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This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a graph database? Graph databases organize facts into connected bundles, ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...

While relational databases still dominate IT budgets, many new development projects are turning to NoSQL databases, which have emerged in recent years to serve all sorts of interesting use cases.

Graph databases are gaining attention as enterprises work on their next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) applications. While still a bit of an outlier, graph-oriented databases continue to find ...