This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a graph database? Graph databases organize facts into connected bundles, ...

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The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...

Businesses are struggling to cope with and leverage an explosion of complex and connected data. This need is driving many companies to adopt scalable, high performance NoSQL databases - a new breed of ...

In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement, rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right; I've never been comfortable talking about ...

Oracle has just rolled out a handy new tool to help companies explore the oceans of data being consumed by technologies like Hadoop. Called the Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, the tool brings ...

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My fans know that my standard test for everything from PaaS (platform as a service) to alternative programming languages is something I call Granny’s Addressbook, a simple CRUD application. As it ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...

In order to understand who a player’s friends are in online Bingo, casino and slot games, Gamesys stepped out of its DB2 comfort zone to implement a NoSQL-based graph database, Neo4j. When Big Data ...

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 ...