Concurrency arises whenever multiple clients, users, or parts of an application read and write the same data at the same time. Transactions make managing concurrency simple for developers. The main ...

Many companies today run mixed NoSQL systems such as MongoDB or Cassandra and use them to perform various activities with the storage and flow of data. Buyers more recent to the NoSQL market are ...

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Businesses are struggling to cope with and leverage an explosion of complex and connected data. This need is driving many companies to adopt scalable, high performance NoSQL databases - a new breed of ...

The use of NoSQL databases has grown rapidly over the last 3 years. NoSQL’s advantages over relational technologies in scalability, performance and data model flexibility have been a big reason.

You could be forgiven for not knowing about Citrusleaf, the NoSQL database vendor out of Mountain View, CA. I certainly didn’t, but I attributed that to still being new to the NoSQL/big data scene.

Just when you thought NoSQL meant the end of SQL, think again, and realize why you need to hold on to your relational database administrator like it was 1999. NoSQL has proven to be a resilient ...

Back in 2009, SQL databases began emerging, mainly to handle modern Web-scale databases. They could handle massive amounts of data; tackle the exponential growth of newly created digital content from ...

Distributed databases have become interesting and attractive in the last decade, as companies with world-wide operations require transactional databases with horizontal scalability and global reach.

The NoSQL database gets its name from what it isn’t: It’s a database that does not use Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the data. Some of the well-known databases, such as Oracle and ...