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.

NoSQL enables big data applications and has been on a tear as a result. But how do you decide if they're right for you?

NoSQL and Hadoop-two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture-have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate-especially within ...

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

Riak is a key-value based NoSQL database that can be used to store user session related data. Andy Gross from Basho Technologies recently spoke at QCon SF 2011 Conference about Riak use cases ...

New tools dubbed NoSQL may help developers achieve Internet-scale for their database driven applications.

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

It comprises Riak KV, a NoSQL database featuring a key/value design, and Riak S2, a cloud-based large object storage product. Riak TS, also based on a key/value design, is optimized to store and ...

Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal scalability, and higher availability than traditional SQL databases, sometimes at the cost of weaker consistency.