Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are key value databases? A key value database is a collection of paired ...

For some time, there was no clear leading key-value NoSQL database. Key-value stores place no restrictions the structure that can be stored for a given key, and, correspondingly, provide no meta data ...

Migrating from an RDBMS to NoSQL can improve scalability and flexibility. Explore top NoSQL databases and best practices for ...

NoSQL databases, on the other hand, store pairs of data: a key holding the name of the field and the value connected to that field. This flexibility allows some entries to have a few keys and ...

NoSQL databases can take a number of forms. They can be cloud services or install on-premises. They can support one or more data models: key-value, document, column, graph, and sometimes even ...

Demystifying The Buzzwords Before we dive in further, let’s demystify a few of the key terms ... ground-breaking value to a large number of customers. The in memory NoSQL database space provided ...

The NoSQL taxonomy supports key-value stores, document store, BigTable, and graph databases. MongoDB, for example, uses a document model, which can be thought of as a row in a RDBMS. Documents ...

First introduced in 2011, the Oracle NoSQL Database is a key-value database that evolved from the company's acquisition of BerkeleyDB Java Edition, a mature, high-performance embeddable database.

NoSQL databases: CouchDB CouchDB stores documents, each of which is made up of a set of pairs that link key with a value. The most radical change is in the query. Instead of some basic query ...