Here's a look at 10 real-world NoSQL use cases, demonstrating how companies from a variety of industries are employing this relatively new database.

Examples of columnar databases include Cassandra, Cloudera, and HBase (which is based on Hadoop). The key/value database system is useful when all access to the database is done using a primary key.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source ...

Graph databases facilitate discovery and analysis closely connected facts. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

The NoSQL taxonomy supports key-value stores, document store, BigTable, and graph databases. MongoDB, for example, uses a document model, which can be thought of as a row in a RDBMS. Documents, a ...

To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

There are many document and column-oriented NoSQL databases, e.g. MongoDB, HBase and Couchbase. Read more about how VoltDB stacks up vs. other database solutions. Alternate data models in NoSQL ...

What does it mean for a NoSQL database to offer a SQL query language? Ask the folks at Couchbase, because they announced just such a facility at their Couchbase Connect event yesterday in Santa ...