Although the concept of NoSQL is relatively new, some of the players have actually been around for a while. Yet, the concept of what NoSQL means continues to change. With all that in mind, let's take ...

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A NoSQL database has flexible data requirements, making it a better fit for applications that will evolve over time than an SQL database.

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 ...

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 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.