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In previous columns, we’ve noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) ...

MongoDB is a widely popular tool for developers – it gives them the ability to store data structures in a way that allows for greater flexibility for building and deploying applications. The issue, ...

In the last Mongo Matters column, we looked at MongoDB’s new SQL interface for querying data in MongoDB Atlas. Almost all of the “NoSQL” databases today support some form of SQL interface in order to ...

The growing third-party market is a key indication that MongoDB has moved from mere maturity to one of the dominant players in this market A good indication of whether a technology is in the plateau ...

Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.

Across most database types, in-use encryption is a sticking point when it comes to security and scalability. In-transit and at-rest data encryption are becoming table stakes for most large modern ...