RDF store databases facilitate the inner workings of applications that connect data from multiple sources. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and ...

NoSQL is a whole new way of thinking about a database. Though NoSQL is not a relational database, the reality is that a relational database model may not be the best solution for all situations.

Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa ...

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more ...

Amazon helped start the "NoSQL" movement. And now it's giving the cause another shot in the arm. NoSQL is a widespread effort to build a new kind of database for “unstructured” information ...

NoSQL databases range from key-value stores to columnar databases to document databases to graph databases. On the face of it, nothing sounds more natural or reasonable than a NoSQL database.

Just four months after releasing a white paper decrying NoSQL database, Oracle has released a NoSQL database of its own.

NoSQL database software forms the core information processing engine for HealthCare.gov, the glitch-filled, $630 million online health exchange serving residents of the 36 states that did not ...