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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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 search engine database? Search engines are database management systems ...

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 applications, those ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

As unstructured data surpasses structured data in many enterprises, interest in NoSQL is increasing as well because of its ability to shed light on the nuggets of valuable information buried in dark ...