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Five Questions Enterprises Should Ask When Selecting a NoSQL Database

With the need for more flexibility when it comes to defining and handling large amounts of data, NoSQL has emerged as a feasible alternative to relational databases. NoSQL databases ...Full Article

Couchbase Releases V4 of NoSQL Database

Couchbase today unveiled the eponymous fourth version of its NoSQL database designed to empower developers in create broader varieties of web, mobile, and Internet of Things applications on Couchbase. ...Full Article

VoltDB Updates In-Memory Operational Database

By enhancing the familiarity of SQL with capabilities that allow organizations to accelerate development cycles, streaming analytics, and time-to-market, VoltDB hopes to shine a light on enterprises' once "dark ...Full Article

NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Choosing the Right Database for Your Business

For decades, relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been the go-to solution for storing and retrieving data. But due to the rapid growth of data volume just about every ...Full Article

Facebook Combines OSquery Tool With RocksDB

Facebook reported progress this week toward integrating its open source osquery tool with the open source RocksDB that serves as an embedded database to store and speed up access ...Full Article

Hadoop Finds Its Place In The Enterprise

The echoes of the blitzkrieg of product announcements at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York are fading. Now is a good time to step back and ...Full Article

September Sales Slowdown Hits Big Blue

IBM has made no secret that it wants to shed unprofitable hardware units, and it no doubt wishes it had been able to do some divesting ahead of its ...Full Article

VoltDB Database Put Through The Paces On Clouds

One of the buzzwords for users of cloud services refers to the increasing need for speed and the velocity of data. Datasets are not only growing in size but ...Full Article

Rackspace Adds MySQL Services, More Databases Coming

Rackspace has expanded its managed cloud services, adding two open source variants of the MySQL database along with plans to add another database to its support list by mid-August. ...Full Article

Oracle Boosts Exadata Database Clusters With Custom Xeon E7s

For some workloads, a big eight-socket server node with a hefty memory footprint is going to support a database workload better than four two-socket nodes in a database cluster, ...Full Article