NoSQL enables big data applications and has been on a tear as a result. But how do you decide if they're right for you?

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 ...

Current enterprise data architectures include NoSQL databases co-existing with RDBMS. In this article, author discusses a solution for managing NoSQL & relational data using unified data modeling.

The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

Microsoft yesterday unveiled Azure DocumentDB, a new cloud-hosted databases that adds elements of a relational database, such as SQL-like queries and transactional processing, into a document-oriented ...

NoSQL databases account for a very small fraction of the overall database market, yet this segment is growing much faster than the overall market. What’s driving this big demand in NoSQL? Last week at ...

FoundationDB, here at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is a modern database with features that have been the foundation for databases since the 1970s. The result, they say, is an infinitely scalable ...

NoSQL and Hadoop — the open source data-crunching platform based on Google’s back-end infrastructure — arose as alternatives to Oracle's existing database and analytics tools, and now ...

Regarding NoSQL, Mendelsohn outlined its value proposition in his conference keynote: "NoSQL is good for applications which need fast, simple database requests (key/value lookups, no joins), which ...

Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal scalability, and higher availability than traditional SQL databases, sometimes at the cost of weaker consistency.