Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...

Before delving into how MongoDB and Cassandra are different, let's document what they have in common. They're both databases, obviously. More importantly, they are both examples of NoSQL databases.

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 ...

For over two decades, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft relational databases were the only consistent leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems--and there were few ...

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, ...

The number of businesses using NoSQL databases, which specialise in storing and managing unstructured and unpredictable data, is set to mushroom in the next few years. For instance, a study from ...

Document-oriented databases (also called: aggregate databases, document databases or document stores) place each record, and its associative data, inside single documents. This database type is a ...

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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with ...

NoSQL databases, also referred to as non-relational, continue to grow in popularity both on-premises and in the cloud. Of the 395 different database management systems tracked by site DB-engines, more ...