Why NoSQL? It's high performance with high availability, and offers rich query language and easy scalability. NoSQL is gaining momentum, and is supported by Hadoop, MongoDB and others.

Using NoSQL does not necessarily involve scrapping your existing RDBMS and starting from scratch. NoSQL should be thought of as a tool that can be used to solve the new types of challenges associated ...

As an alternative to relational technology, NoSQL database deployments could well be entering a new phase next year, according to Bob Wiederhold, CEO of open-source NoSQL firm Couchbase.

NoSQL - probably the hottest term in database technology today - was unheard of only a year ago. And yet, today, there are literally dozens of database systems described as 'NoSQL.' How did all of ...

The last time I was evaluating NoSQL databases I ended up sticking with a relational database. I’m evaluating them again today and this time I’m pretty sure I’ll have to actually choose one ...

Graphing engines, and their ability to understand relationships, are becoming a popular alternative to relational systems and NoSQL databases.

You'd think the advent of 'webscale' NoSQL databases would have consigned MySQL to history. But you'd be very wrong MySQL is a bit of an attention hog. With relational databases supposedly put on ...

If they call it a NoSQL database, why would you want to run SQL queries on it? Counterintuitive as it sounds, that’s exactly the idea being explored by a company called Splice Machine.