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What is surprising is how different the NoSQL projects are turning out to be. Whereas the old relational space largely converged on a set of features and a standard language, these new databases are ...

For the last few years, the world of NoSQL databases has been filled with exciting new projects, ambitious claims, and plenty of chest beating. The hypesters said the new NoSQL software packages ...

Most students of the web trace the NoSQL movement back to Google and Amazon. As they grew their enormously successful online services, Google and Amazon needed new ways of storing massive amounts of ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

The market is abuzz with terms like NoSQL, Big Data, NewSQL, Database Appliance, etc. Often, IT decision makers can get very confused with all the noise. They do not understand why they should ...

In the NoSQL world there are dozens of database engines to choose from. Each has their specific strengths and each has their crippling weaknesses. Making things even harder, NoSQL projects tend to ...

Like many emerging technologies, NoSQL has gone through a hype cycle that saw widespread implementation followed by decidedly mixed results. The cargo-cult mentality that had everyone jumping on board ...

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In case you’ve been sleeping on Mars and missed the excitement, today’s hot industry trends (HITs) in IT center around devices, the cloud, and data. Just about everyone with an opinion and a soapbox, ...