Document A document database is a NoSQL DBMS specifically designed to store documents. Records do not need to conform to any uniform standard, and they can store very different types of data.

The four key database types that fall under the NoSQL category are key-value stores which allow the storage of schema-less data, with a key and actual data, column family databases, which store data ...

While relational databases still dominate IT budgets, many new development projects are turning to NoSQL databases, which have emerged in recent years to serve all sorts of interesting use cases.

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.

NoSQL databases have surged in popularity as organizations struggle to serve highly distributed Web applications, but navigating the various types of NoSQL databases and the vendors providing them has ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility ...

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 ...

After announcing the technology at its OpenWorld conference last month, Oracle has launched its much anticipated NoSQL database.