A relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement and explains how to choose the right database for your application.

It makes selection of a NoSQL database more difficult, but the payoff can be a more efficient, higher-performing solution than a conventional SQL database.

NoSQL databases range from key-value stores to columnar databases to document databases to graph databases. On the face of it, nothing sounds more natural or reasonable than a NoSQL database.

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

Imagine a new content management technology designed to store all of the rich semantic structure, metadata and intelligence about your content.

The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB, has been released, the corporate sponsor of the project, Couchio, announced on Wednesday.

In the NoSQL database world, this means an integrated platform that incorporates not just the database but also the search engine and application services.

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database.

Today's abundance of NoSQL databases gives firms choice with one hand but doles out management complexity with the other, according to Basho CTO Dave McCrory.

These core elements–the relational database management system (RDBMS) and SQL–have proven quite powerful, and have been the foundation of a huge number of applications and computer systems. With ...