In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed ...

HBase is a column-oriented database, and so is Cassandra. HBase: A primer Apache HBase is a NoSQL database that runs on top of Hadoop as a distributed and scalable big data store.

Fortunately, the choice is getting easier as the market coalesces around three dominant NoSQL databases: MongoDB (backed by my former employer), Cassandra (primarily developed by DataStax, though ...

Google's column-oriented key value store BigTable influenced many NoSQL systems such as Apache HBase, Cassandra and HyperTable. And, of course, the Google Map-Reduce algorithm became the foundation ...

Apache Cassandra, which is supported by DataStax, and Apache HBase, supported by Cloudera, are examples of popular extensible-record stores.

Google’s column-oriented key value store BigTable influenced many NoSQL systems such as Apache HBase, Cassandra and HyperTable. And, of course, the Google Map-Reduce algorithm became the foundation ...

Wide column store databases allow you to manage data that just won’t fit on one computer. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

There are many document and column-oriented NoSQL databases, e.g. MongoDB, HBase and Couchbase. Read more about how VoltDB stacks up vs. other database solutions. Alternate data models in NoSQL ...