While relational databases rely on rigid structures, document databases are much more natural to work with and can be used for a variety of use cases across industries. A document database (also known ...

The NoSQL trend has given us a crazy array of new database choices. Clusterpoint has just jumped in to offer a cloud-based document database I have a bit of a hangover from two back-to-back NoSQL ...

MongoDB is a document-based database, benefiting from growth in the cloud and the need to consume and use data variants that go beyond typical relational database setups. As technologies like the ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a document store database? Document stores accommodate data that has a ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is taking a shot at MongoDB Inc. with the launch today of its new Amazon DocumentDB database service. Amazon said DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available and fully ...

Modernizing applications means delivering an architecture that is flexible and scalable. NoSQL databases, such as document databases, support a flexible schema and scale out architecture. When ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a "NoSQL" database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

A data dictionary is like a bill of materials for a database; it lists all database components, including reports, tables, field names and field types. Such information helps audit databases for ...