According to the “three V’s” definition of big data (Volume, Velocity, Variety) big data is as much about the increasing rate of data requisition as it is about increasing volumes. Big data and NoSQL ...

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Addressing the need to store and manage increasingly large amounts of data that does not fit neatly in rows and columns, NoSQL databases can run on commodity hardware, support the unstructured, ...

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The name might be short for Not Only SQL, but to be a proper database that can be used by normal enterprises and not just by hyperscalers with their fleets of PhDs, any database, whether it is a ...

Cohesity also is expanding its data protection and management capabilities with native Kubernetes container and Microsoft OneDrive capabilities. Data protection software and appliance developer ...

A start-up founded by academic researchers has created the NoSQL Toolbox, a method for choosing the best database for a given job. The tool comes from German company Baqend GmbH, which provides a ...

Couchbase 3.0 promises faster performance, plus sneak peeks at the new ForestDB database engine and N1QL query language Couchbase, creator of a commercial variant of the NoSQL CouchDB database, has ...

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 ...