Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

NoSQL databases have emerged to address the limitations of traditional relational systems when managing massive, heterogeneous datasets generated by modern applications. They dispense with rigid ...

Google launched a public beta for a new global database service that features both the consistency of the relational model and the scaling and data functionality of NoSQL offerings. Called Cloud ...

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.

IT systems can scale vertically, horizontally, and sometimes both. In broad terms, vertical scaling, or scale-up, entails installing more powerful systems or upgrading to more powerful components.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...