Distributed database consistency models form the backbone of reliable and high-performance systems in today’s interconnected digital landscape. These models define the guarantees provided by a ...

In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup FoundationDB has launched a new data store that it claims can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the ...

The modern sense of NoSQL, which dates from 2009, refers to databases that are not built on relational tables, unlike SQL databases. Often, NoSQL databases boast better design flexibility, horizontal ...

The NoSQL acronym suggests it's the SQL language that is the key difference between traditional relational and newer non-relational data stores. However, an equally significant divergence is in the ...

There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

As developers tackle increasingly large problems, they have to store their data in more complex ways — adding a constellation of computers to house it all. But adding more computer hardware can lead ...

In this slidecast, Dave Rosenthal from FoundationDB, the first commercially available NoSQL database that supports global ACID transactions (found only in relational systems) and multi-data models.

With the big data education resource below, you can learn about data modelling in a NoSQL environment. Even though most NoSQL databases follow the “schema-free” data paradigma, what a database is ...

The startup claims its new data store can offer the reliability of transactional databases and the scalability and speed of NoSQL In an effort to combine the best of two database technologies, startup ...