No more are the days of a single database for an entire enterprise. Explore open-source NoSQL database options and when to use each one.

- Using new advances in database sharding and high-performance replication techniques, it is possible to achieve excellent linear scalability and high-availability with traditional SQL databases, ...

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

Applications use key-value databases for everything from caching objects to sharing commonly used data among application nodes.

The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB, has been released, the corporate sponsor of the project, Couchio, announced on Wednesday. Two major enhancements ...

NoSQL basics NoSQL solutions emerged as a reaction to frustration with the cost and inflexibility of legacy RDBMS products like Oracle and IBM DB2, which use SQL as a query language. The original ...

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document ...

RDBMS: Relational Database Management System. SQL: Structured Query Language, also used to refer to databases that use SQL as their query language. NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that ...

More and more businesses are adopting NoSQL databases to support the broad set of use cases for the next-generation of personalized, context-sensitive, and location-aware applications.