This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

Organizations need databases that can meet increasing demands for data storage and accommodate data variety efficiently. Column-oriented databases fit this description. Columnar databases are a type ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

This is an excerpt from Chapter 15 from the book NoSQL for Mere Mortals by Dan Sullivan, an independent database consultant and author. In the chapter, Sullivan takes a look at the four primary types ...

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 ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

ScyllaDB has released into general availability a major update to its popular NoSQL database of the same name. Announced at the first annual “Scylla Summit” at the Hilton San Jose yesterday, the ...

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, horizontal ...