Navigational databases offer exceptionally rapid data access in exchange for rigorous data structure requirements. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases ...

Time series databases provide optimum support for working with time-dependent data. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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