Was it just two or three years ago when choosing a database was easy? Those with a Cadillac budget bought Oracle, those in a Microsoft shop installed SQL Server, those with no budget chose MySQL.

For the last few years, the world of NoSQL databases has been filled with exciting new projects, ambitious claims, and plenty of chest beating. The hypesters said the new NoSQL software packages ...

Recently, Wikibon’s Chief Analyst, Dave Vellante, had a talk with Oren Falkowitz, CEO of big data startup Sqrrl, about the company’s development and work on the open source project Accumulo. Although ...

“For me personally, no, I didn’t see this coming,” DataStax Co-founder and CTO Jonathan Ellis admitted during a recent phone interview about $106 million series E round of venture capital the company ...

NoSQL continues to gain adoption, primarily due to the need for it in corporate daily operations and the freedom it provides compared to the rigid schemas associated with relational technologies. That ...

The last time I was evaluating NoSQL databases I ended up sticking with a relational database. I’m evaluating them again today and this time I’m pretty sure I’ll have to actually choose one. The ...

The NoSQL databases featuring massive scalability developed for and used by the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have created a whole new category. Amazingly (or not) most of the ...

NoSQL databases provide the agility, scalability, performance and availability to support many applications today, but implementing them is not always easy. Here are 10 tips for integrating NoSQL ...