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 ...

NoSQL: used to refer to a class of databases that are non-relational and do not use SQL as their query language. They could perhaps be better called Distributed Database Management Systems (or DDBMSes ...

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.