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 ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

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 ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SingleStore, the single database for data-intensive applications, today announced the launch of SingleStoreDB with IBM, designed to provide enterprises with a one-stop ...

When Teradata bought Aster Data in 2011, it set out on a quest to bring (then) esoteric Big Data technology to the relational database faithful. Specifically, Aster's SQL-MapReduce facility allowed ...

ALBANY - Shoppers will soon have a better sense of the cleanliness of their local grocery store or corner deli. The state Agriculture Department started Jan. 1 with a new letter rating system for its ...