This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a document store database? Document stores accommodate data that has a ...

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 known ...

Document databases are a form of NoSQL database that may store all of the information for a given object in a single instance in the database. Contrast this with relational databases that might store ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

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 ...

Commentary: It’s no longer exciting to talk about the rise of non-relational databases, but it’s happening all the same. It’s not exactly clear where we are in the Gartner Hype Cycle with respect to ...