Poke around the infrastructure of any startup website or mobile app these days, and you’re bound to find something other than a relational database doing much of the heavy lifting. Take, for example, ...

The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it’s easy to fit the various ...

Over the last few weeks I've been talking to database companies from both sides of the SQL divide, and the more I've talked about how their databases are developing - and how their users are using ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Shana Dacres-Lawrence explains the complex ...

Earlier this year, analyst firm Gartner came up with a name for a category of hybrid processing that it believes will cause upheaval in established architectures. The ...

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...

MongoDB's NoSQL database offers faster query processing and flexibility, making it a strong competitor against SQL databases like Snowflake, especially for AI applications. MongoDB's strategy includes ...

There's much hype around NoSQL databases, but are developers using them in the real world? One development shop tells me yes. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...

Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query ...

When a $40 billion database industry giant takes enough interest in a technology to build its own application programming interface for it, that’s an indication the technology has legitimate appeal.