Some NoSQL databases focus on speed, some on scale, while others aim at relationships or offline use. The right choice depends on how your ...

Relational databases and SQL were invented in the 1970s, but still dominate the data world today. Why? Relational calculus, consistent data, logical data representation are all reasons that a ...

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As more computing functions move to the cloud, a relatively new database format — NoSQL — is poised to take the place of the SQL database on which so many manufacturers rely. Automation experts weigh ...

Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce, open ...

In the worlds of Big Data, NoSQL and relational databases, Splice Machine's name doesn't come up that often. But a closer look at the company's product, architectural approach and CEO put them on my ...

Basho Technologies Inc. today open sourced its Riak TS NoSQL Big Data database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT) development, which is out in a new version sporting standard SQL querying and ...

The world of the database is one of those areas that sees lots of people obsessing over details that to outside observers would seem trivial. Graph, NoSQL, SQL, distributed—so many choices. So, when ...

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John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...