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 ...

For the last few years, the world of NoSQL databases has been filled with exciting new projects, ambitious claims, and plenty of chest beating. The hypesters said the new NoSQL software packages ...

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 ...

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 ...

NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. At VoltDB, we’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if ...

Quest Software has posted a free beta version of a software program that will allow database administrators and developers to better understand what is stored in non-relational databases. “For certain ...

In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

After announcing the technology at its OpenWorld conference last month, Oracle has launched its much anticipated NoSQL database. The Oracle NoSQL Database can now be downloaded from the Oracle ...

FoundationDB, here at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is a modern database with features that have been the foundation for databases since the 1970s. The result, they say, is an infinitely scalable ...

Best NoSQL Database Look to NoSQL for fast, highly scalable access to free-form data. This comes with a few costs, like consistency of reads and other safeguards common to SQL databases. But for many ...