Some NoSQL databases focus on speed, some on scale, while others aim at relationships or offline use. The right choice depends on how your ...

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Couchbase is a prominent NoSQL database that, along with MongoDB, explicitly targets Big Data applications. Although based on technology from the Apache CouchDB document store project, Couchbase ...

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For over two decades, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft relational databases were the only consistent leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems--and there were few ...

Talking about SQL database, the basic concept is that; it is a Relational database. Yes! SQL database is a relational database. So what exactly is a relational database? A relational database strictly ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

You could be forgiven for not knowing about Citrusleaf, the NoSQL database vendor out of Mountain View, CA. I certainly didn’t, but I attributed that to still being new to the NoSQL/big data scene.