A NoSQL database has flexible data requirements, making it a better fit for applications that will evolve over time than an SQL database.

A NoSQL database is exactly the type of database that can handle the sort of unstructured, messy and unpredictable data that our system of engagement requires.

Document A document database is a NoSQL DBMS specifically designed to store documents. Records do not need to conform to any uniform standard, and they can store very different types of data.

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 ...

While relational databases still dominate IT budgets, many new development projects are turning to NoSQL databases, which have emerged in recent years to serve all sorts of interesting use cases.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL ...

NoSQL databases have surged in popularity as organizations struggle to serve highly distributed Web applications, but navigating the various types of NoSQL databases and the vendors providing them has ...

The present profusion of NoSQL databases can't last. But while it persists, two of the problems it gives businesses are finding skills for all the technologies they're trying out and then managing the ...

Much in Aerospike echoes both other key-value stores and other NoSQL databases. Data is stored and retrieved by way of keys, and the data can be kept in a number of fundamental data types ...