The structured limitations of relational databases don't support modern advancements as well as NoSQL databases. The simplicity of a NoSQL key-value store offers a flexible architecture to process ...

Database keys are essential components of a relational database management system. DBMS keys are used to specify identifying attributes in the rows of database tables so the data can be sorted and ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are key value databases? A key value database is a collection of paired ...

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 ...

When NoSQL first hit the IT consciousness in 2009, an explosion of NoSQL databases seemed to appear out of thin air. Some of these contenders had in fact been around for some time, with others thrown ...