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 ...

If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It’s had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English ...

SQL Server Express Edition (Beta2) SQL Server Express is one of two free databases we tested and is actually Microsoft's replacement for its earlier free offering the Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) ...

In 2005 when Google was a $6.1 billion business, the database that underpinned the company’s primary cash cow – it’s AdWords online advertising platform that accounted for more than 95% of its revenue ...

Who would have thought databases would become one of the most thrilling areas of technology? A visit to Couchbase in Palo Alto, Calif., this past week reminded me of how NoSQL is shaking things up. It ...

With version 2.0, the open-source database Dolt brings vector data, adaptive storage for large values, and a new storage ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

GraphQL may end up having as much impact as SQL did, by simplifying the process of querying any data system. GraphQL, an emerging standard for querying multiple types of data systems, is shifting the ...