Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

A relational database is a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The standard user ...

Google launched a public beta for a new global database service that features both the consistency of the relational model and the scaling and data functionality of NoSQL offerings. Called Cloud ...

NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. At VoltDB, we’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if ...

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 ...

It’s not exactly clear where we are in the Gartner Hype Cycle with respect to so-called “NoSQL” databases. We’ve definitely been through the Trough of Disillusionment, but are we in the Slope of ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a multivalue database? Multivalue databases have tabular structure that ...

Relational databases may keep old stack workloads, but Morgan Stanley research suggests NoSQL databases will own the next generation of apps The relational database has had an astonishingly good run ...