It’s not for nothing that one of the popular Big Data platforms is known as NoSQL. Users soon realized that Big Data technology was something of a blunt instrument.

Here are 10 basic facts every CIO should know about big data and emerging database technologies.

NoSQL might well be called "the little database engine that could." It is quietly proving it is on track as Big Data transitions to cloud-based data storage and management. NoSQL is increasingly ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record ...

Big data is comprised of the well-known 3 V’s: volume, velocity, and variety. Traditionally, when there has been an influx of new data, systems have scaled up. Recently though with the variety and ...

Amazon has its DynamoDB managed NoSQL database, which built on the concepts laid out in Amazon’s Dynamo paper, and now Google has Cloud Bigtable, based on Bigtable.

Forrester divides the overall big data management space into six segments, including enterprise data warehouse, NoSQL, Hadoop, big data integration, data virtualization, and in-memory data fabric.

The company has limited presence in the niche NoSQL database market. The gargantuan rise in global unstructured data in recent times has pushed companies into adopting niche technologies such as ...

The dirty secret is that big data and NoSQL vendors aren’t just targeting gigantic, consumer-facing companies like Facebook or Google.

Using big data to extract value from your data is one thing. However, using NoSQL can increase your technical debt and put your enterprise at risk of data integrity and the lack of resilience ...