This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

Organizations need databases that can meet increasing demands for data storage and accommodate data variety efficiently. Column-oriented databases fit this description. Columnar databases are a type ...

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 ...

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

This is an excerpt from Chapter 15 from the book NoSQL for Mere Mortals by Dan Sullivan, an independent database consultant and author. In the chapter, Sullivan takes a look at the four primary types ...

The term “NoSQL” is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

Most students of the web trace the NoSQL movement back to Google and Amazon. As they grew their enormously successful online services, Google and Amazon needed new ways of storing massive amounts of ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...

Relational databases have been commercially dominant and the go-to solution for quite some time. But change is brewing. Large Web applications have created requirements poorly matched for relational ...