While relational databases rely on rigid structures, document databases are much more natural to work with and can be used for a variety of use cases across industries. A document database (also ...

Like Notes, these database systems store information not as normalized relational tables, but as documents in a rich self-describing structure. Both use a variant of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) ...

Microsoft has launched a document database platform constructed on a relational PostgreSQL back end.… The Redmond giant is also suggesting users can kick things off by implementing an open ...

So rather than trying to compete in the relational database market, over the past decade, many database startups focused on alternative architectures such as document-centric databases (like ...